Inescapable

Evie Claremont arrives at Crestwood for her freshman year hoping to start fresh. At seventeen, she is inexperienced but level-headed, the kind of person who looks for a rational explanation even when events turn strange. A recurring nightmare has followed her to campus anyway.

Then she meets sophomore Reed Wellington. Whenever he is near, she feels a magnetic pull toward him. He, however, treats her as the worst thing to have happened to Crestwood, or to himself, and yet he keeps turning up wherever she goes.

Evie senses that Reed is hiding something. Her suspicion is that he is not normal, and that she may not be either. Her sense of what is real begins to give way.

The story is a young adult paranormal romance told in Evie's first-person voice, with a wry, anxious tone. Her dream points toward a dark future, and the question running through it is whether she can avoid that future at all.