PREFACE

BANNED FROM THE BEACH

To all those who came across this wild journey-

Well, that’s exactly what this has been. A wild ride.

I’ve had the opportunity over the last two years, based on an 18.5-year friendship, to study and love Mr. Williams so he could take the brave steps to tell his story. So I could provide something to the world.

The journey has been incredibly hard. When it’s good, it’s great, and on his hardest days, we learn the why behind all these outcomes that shaped his life. I hate everything about this situation; it’s actually disgusting. Honestly, I hate this version of Adam the most. This is the man that I feel is exactly where he should be, serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. There was no excuse. Not even his childhood. What he did was so heinous that I, too, walked away from him back in 2020.

He lied to my face on a video call and said something foul about one of the victims. I remember sitting in silence, sick to my stomach. I finally blurted out, “I can’t believe you just said that. You have absolutely no right. How dare you?”

He didn’t reply. We just listened to each other breathe. The air was so thick you could cut it with a knife. I finally said, “Shame on you. Don’t ever call me again,” and I hung up.

Adam spent the next 4.5 years working on himself, and finally, in April of 2024, his mother called and said, “Adam wants to know if you’re ready to talk to him?” I responded I wasn’t sure, and she explained she knew he had tried to get a hold of me over the years and that I would block him. She said he found Christ now, and he just wanted an opportunity to speak to me.

When I heard this, I remembered the strangest dream I had years prior, when I walked away because, in my mind, I could forgive him for his foulness, but I just couldn’t forgive him for lying about an innocent person who deserved to live. Ya know people say all the time “I’ll die for you, but how many of us say I want to live for you”. In my dream, I was holding a book that was about the goodness of God, and I remember reading a page, and it was about Adam. So I decided to see if he was ready to live.

This trilogy has a purpose, and HeavenBound is the focus. Without Hellbound and Banned from the Beach, HeavenBound wouldn’t have the meaning or the value it needs to explain the why.

Please read this book with high discretion. Everything is here. Everything is included. It will change your life—and for that, I am sorry. None of this should have ever taken place. Unfortunately, nothing can be changed in our pasts. All we can do is move forward and try to make the best out of the unfortunate chain of events that taught us so much.

The story in Banned from the Beach is heavy and hard to make it through. That is a major reason behind the timing of this release—it takes time to process the magnitude of the evil that dwells within these pages.

I pray for everyone who seeks answers and dares to embark on the words written with a declaration to overcome our pasts. Mr. Williams expressed a great deal of emotion about the choices he made—remorse, anger, regret, and the wish that he could take it all back. His account was genuine.

This opportunity for everyone is a very black-and-white version of Adam Curtis Williams. If you take the journey, you will meet a man who was once so evil, and at the very same time, you will meet a man you want to love forever. Both exist, but you have to read them all.

Sincerely,

Ashley Williams