He was twenty-one years old when he died.

He was smart, strong, and good-looking ? and he wore it lightly. He taught his little sister how to throw a punch, how to read a room, how to look for the light in the dark.

This is her account of who he was, how she lost him, and how she carried it for thirty-eight years ? until God started telling her it was time to write it down.

Scott is a memoir about grief and guilt. About a frequency between two people that the world has no proper name for. About faith that survived fury. About the kind of love that doesn't end when someone walks out of a bedroom door and doesn't come back.

It is not a tidy grief story. It is honest, raw, and written with the kind of love that only grief and gratitude together can produce.

For everyone who has ever lost someone and couldn't find the words. This book found them.

The loss of my brother ? on the night of my eighteenth birthday party ? became the defining wound of my life, and ultimately, the defining purpose of it. He took a piece of my light with him. My books are what I did with the dark.I have had 49 jobs and lived in 26 cities across 6 countries. I am not someone who couldn't settle down. I am someone who refused to settle.Words Can Heal or Destroy bridges faith, physics, and personal testimony ? for every person still carrying the weight of something someone said twenty years ago.Scott is a memoir about my brother, written with the kind of love that only grief and gratitude together can produce.Break It was written while still in the midst of the battle. Not from the mountaintop. From the tunnel. For every warrior who fights everyone else's battles brilliantly and loses the one inside their own head.Tammy Leigh Lawless. Author. Fighter. Still climbing. 🌺