Villain

In Shattered, A.E. Hayes opened a window for her readers to see into some of the darkest parts of her life. From her experiences with a traumatic brain injury and amnesia to the realities of living with dissociative identity disorder, Hayes never shrank from the truth.
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But that's not the whole story.

While writing Shattered, Hayes was struck by the notion that she was often the villain in her own story. From that idea, Villain was born.

Villain provides a space for some of the stories and episodes from her life that did not fit into the narrative of Shattered. But it goes farther than that. It also gives voice to several of the alters that were created by traumas in Hayes's past. From an account of a car wreck to a gut-wrenching account of love gone wrong and an exciting tale of hijinks at a casino, the alters' stories are sometimes harrowing, sometimes tragic, and sometimes hilarious. But they're always authentic.

Villain is not a direct sequel to Shattered, but rather a companion piece. Whether or not you've read Shattered, Villain is an accessible read that will make you question your notions of good and evil, hero and villain.

A.E. Hayes has been featured under various pseudonyms in myriad novels, anthologies, poetry collections, and music magazines. She is the author of the memoir Shattered: Memoirs of an Amnesiac, which was a #1 Amazon bestseller in medical memoir. She is currently working on a collection of nonfiction essays titled Villain (release date May 2018), writing a short story for a Gothic Romance anthology, as well as writing a paranormal science fiction horror story for the upcoming graphic novel The Eynes Anthology. A.E. was most recently featured in the anthologies Love Across the Universe and Crazy Little Spring Called Love. She studied English and Writing at Hood College, where she earned her B.A., and later studied Fiction Writing at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. A.E. resides in Maryland with her husband and son, and when she isn't writing, singing opera, or debating the finer points of law, she spends her time drinking too much coffee, pretending she's a Cylon, and staring at the water in St. Michaels, plotting ideas for her future projects. Please visit her website, aehayes.com, for updates and future publications. She can be contacted at aehayes@aehayes.com, on Twitter as @AE_Hayes, or on Facebook @aehayesauthor.

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