Ashley's Bow: A Story of Ashley Chapman

By Larry McKinney

Book Overview

So let me introduce you to somebody.

I met Ashley when she was four years old. She already had a good dad, and I never tried to take his place. I was her stepdad, and somewhere along the way we became best friends.

This book is the story of that love. It's the little girl who lived on chicken nuggets and SpaghettiOs, who loved horses, cowboy boots, and every cat she ever met. It's the Chevy girl in a Ford family, and the SpongeBob war I waged on her for years because she couldn't stand him. It's a kid who faced what was hard for her with quiet determination and grew into a young woman who left her mark on everyone she met.

And it's the story of losing her.

Ashley was gone too soon. We still don't know where to put the love that was left. So I put it here, in these pages, so that people who never got to meet her would know exactly who she was.

Ashley's Bow is about loving a child who wasn't yours by blood but was yours in every way that counts. It's about the ordinary days you don't know are precious while you're living them. It will make you laugh, it will break your heart, and I hope it sends you home to hold your people a little closer.

I call her Ash.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJL1RY5Z
• ISBN13: 9798998093005
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Fly Straight Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"