gregory oliver mcewan • Freedom City trilogy
Ada's Doctrine
Gregory McEwan's new novel spins a tale of the life of Alexander Ada – of a time before Freedom City. Long before Benjamin's terror in a paradise, ten-year-old Alexander, the eldest son of an Anglican priest, lived a life of imprisonment of his own. He faces many sorrows throughout his young life, but Alexander vows to make something of himself some day. At last, he finds himself…and even friends, Douglas Grey and Christopher Black. He finally feels free of the shackles of his father's expectations, but with haunting childhood memories and a father he was never able to please, Alexander is left with no choice but to build a future based upon his troubled past.
Freedom City
It is Benjamin's wish that certain things in his life be different. Benjamin is an identical twin; he craves individuality. He knows he's different and he struggles to find acceptance. Things change quickly, but he soon realizes the true value of the life he had...after it is all gone. He finds himself at a place where only imprisonment, loneliness, homophobia, the hardships of love and even death exist; he finds himself at Freedom City. Surrender your mind and be captured - taken to a place where excitement, mystery, passion, and even danger lurk. Freedom city is a coming-of-age story that covers the experiences of Benjamin, a young man whose life changes on his twentieth birthday. Freedom City will take you on a mysterious journey, it will take you to a paradise. But you will have no choice but to feel what Benjamin feels - he questions whether this place is the paradise that it appears to be, or a prison for himself and others like him. You will find it near impossible to escape from FREEDOM CITY.
Benjamin
The sequel to Gregory McEwan's FREEDOM CITY, spins a tale of Benjamin Grey's life five years after his escape from the city at sea. He is indeed a new man. He has moved on with his life. Benjamin owns his own art gallery…and he even finds love; and though the painful memories of his rape and the murder of his close friend Christopher still surface at times, he is determined to remain strong and leave the past where it belongs. But when a mysterious stranger surfaces, Benjamin has no choice but to plunge deep into the past he so wants to leave behind, and suddenly it feels as though he is living in Freedom City all over again. Gregory McEwan's Benjamin, is a novel of reunions, new discoveries, passions, and even danger.