Freewill: A New Adult Paranormal Romance and Fantasy Adventure. Book Club Edition

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Book One of the Freewill Trilogy

by Elyse Draper

What if the voice in your head wasn’t yours, but someone else’s soul calling out for help?

Seventeen-year-old Ellie Tickle wants nothing more than to escape the suffocating grief of war-torn London. But when she’s sent to spend the summer on her uncle’s farm in the English countryside, she discovers more than peace—she finds a hidden world of ancient magic, fractured souls, and forbidden connections that defy time and death.

Drawn into a tangled bond with a haunted boy and shadowed by a malevolent psychic presence, Ellie begins to unravel secrets buried deep in her family’s past—secrets that awaken her empathic abilities and threaten the fragile line between sanity and fate. As unseen forces close in, Ellie must choose to deny her gift or embrace it and face a darkness older than memory itself.

Blending paranormal romance, emotional suspense, and lush magical realism, Freewill is perfect for Alice Oseman, V.E. Schwab, and Leigh Bardugo fans. Set in an alternate present where magic pulses just beneath the surface of ordinary life, this is a coming-of-age story that asks what it means to love—and lose—when free will collides with destiny.

Book One of the Freewill Trilogy, this new adult romantasy delivers gripping supernatural tension, deep emotional resonance, and a slow-burn love story that unfolds across planes of existence.