The Autumn Year - the ascension series book 1

Eco-conscious twenty year-old Ellen Hildermann must rise to fight external pressures to be like everyone else her age and “grow up”… but first, she must overcome her inner conflict of feeling left behind. It is the events of Ellen’s Autumn Year that challenge her to discover what true growth really is.

For Ellen Hildermann, true growth starts the year she meets Brigid, the peculiar woman who is somehow privy to information that Ellen never tells her. It is the year when ambitious and controlling Janine, Ellen’s older sister, becomes so frustrated with Ellen’s lack of purpose that she enrolls her into a sustainability course at an Indian eco-village. During this year, cheeky Matt, proud Maori and the resident spunk at Ellen’s garden centre workplace, dates bubbly Alex, one of Ellen’s best friends. It is the year when Ellen decides if there’s one change she would like, it’s to have a boyfriend, and she becomes infatuated with Brendan, Brigid’s cute, fifth-grade teacher son… who everyone warns Ellen against – including his own mother...