The story isn’t exactly divided, but there is a before and after. Ziggy may have lost hope, but as the friendship between the two grows, so do each other’s hope. After a brief and minor contact, Marc becomes curious about Ziggy and why he was dumped on the pavement, on the verge of death. After an almost-deathly encounter, Marc, a paramedic, saves Ziggy and takes him to the hospital. Thinking Damian was the man he thought was the answer to his prayers of being cared for and loved, he instead falls into the trap of a controlling, toxic, and manipulative relationship. Saving Ziggy first follows Ziggy (his mom was a huge Bowie fan), a young, twenty-year-old prosecutor in Liverpool, and Damian, his thirty-seven-year-old boyfriend. Trigger/content warnings for sexual, emotional, and mental abuse, and sexual assault. I need to make him see he can have it all, including me. I’ve been burnt before but I won’t let that stop me this time. The more I know, the more I want him in my life, but is he too damaged? Too scarred at such an early age to let me love him as he deserves. I need to know his story, need to know what put him in the back of my ambulance, as close to death as he could be. Meeting him though, the most handsome man ever, I thought all my prayers had been answered….until they weren’t.Īn early call out changes my life forever. Selling myself on the streets for the past two years, the worst, but what else was I to do? All I truly wanted was someone I could love and someone to love me in return.

Leaving home four years ago was the best thing I could have done.

Saving Ziggy by Alex J. Adams