“Elyse Draper, as a native Coloradan, brings a distinctive vision of the Rocky Mountains to life. When that sight is combined with her love of world travel, history, sociological sciences, psychology, and humanism, the outcome is a setting that spans the world and imagination. This aptitude when tossed lightly with an educational background of law, philosophy, and French, brings the result of a fantastic yet realistic renaissance storytelling, ultimately taking the reader on an exceptional journey.” ~ The Smoking Poet Magazine
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Ellie has discovered an ancient world that exists within, and alongside, our own. To survive the mysterious and dangerous, she has to learn what she has become since her death, where her strength really resides, and how to love and be loved. Unbeknownst to her, destiny’s stop watch is counting down, secret organizations are watching her every move, and her family’s past may destroy her future.
Consequences, the second book in the Freewill Trilogy,is a Young Adult slipstream novel that embodies both science fiction and dark fantasy, with strong paranormal romantic overtones. As a result of finding her soul mate (Christopher), Ellie has broken her curse, and awakened from her death to find that she has become something mystical, an ethereal Other. A being, whose story has yet to end,where who one is before their death, leads to what they become after … kindness or violence follows in their wake.The Others are ancient creatures, who can help humanity, or cause our destruction … and Ellie has found that monsters are waiting in the mist. On her path to find a guide,she has attracted the attention of one such monster, Echidna — the mother of malice. Beyond misperceptions and mistakes, throughout journeys and lessons learned, Ellie has left Christopher behind, so that madness and fear begin to tear him apart, just in time for Echidna to crave the act of feasting on the pieces.
The Freewill Trilogy: We are not defined by the choices that are made for us; but by the choices we make when we believe that all other options have been taken away. Mysterious murders, strange secret societies, and betrayal surrounds Christopher. Ellie finds out, if she can survive the treachery of giving your heart to another. Together, they must discover how to experience strength, forgiveness, and true love — only by letting go of each other. Cruel and unfair, they may believe that their world is ruthless; but only by leaving behind their troubles will they ultimately overcome the horrors that await them.
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The Freewill Trilogy: We are not defined by the choices that are made for us; but by the choices we make when we believe that all other options have been taken away.
The trilogy is a Young Adult slipstream series that embodies both science fiction and dark fantasy, with strong paranormal romantic overtones. Within its pages a world comes to life, where mythology is real and evident in humanity’s interaction with the ethereal Others.
Ellie, once a human but now an Other (an empathic creature surviving in a fugue state, inside the otherworldly veil for over sixty years,) has been finding the strength to exist through her compulsion to be a muse; that is, until she meets Christopher. Christopher, a present day young man with the special talent to foresee the truth of the intangible Others, quickly becomes Ellie’s heart’s desire. Ellie and Christopher inevitably find themselves developing an unusual relationship, where touching one another can only happen in Christopher’s dreams. Unbeknownst to them, ever since Ellie’s birth in 1922, destiny’s hand, guided by mythical forces and fairy tale lineage, has been pushing them into each other’s embrace, while also potentially into the arms of evil Others called the Timoro, and into the sights of dangerous feuding organizations– the Symboulio: the council of the ancient and divine, and the Symbio: the new world council of acceptance.
A creature that is hated and feared by mankind has fallen in love. Morte redefines devotion in a timeline spanning many millennia, and landscapes that baffle the senses. At the bedside of a comatose girl, who suffers from terminal burns, Morte spins stories of past lives lived and lost, and tales of love’s eternal pursuit for completion.
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An iPub Perspective Editorial by Elyse Draper, Jennifer Wyman, and Kathleen Leaf Did you know that Mental Health Awareness Month started in 1949? No? Have you ever wondered why Americans are so apathetic toward mental health? Have you ever thought to yourself, “The younger generation needs to toughen up. When… - A Lost GenerationOriginally posted on iPub Forum :
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