Freedom Love

Francis grew up with nothing. A burned house, a dead mother, a debt that was never his, and a city that watched him starve.

Maxwell Astor grew up with everything. Money, genius, a name that opened every door, and a father who made sure none of those doors ever led out.

They met once when they were boys, through a hole in a hedge behind an orphanage. One act of mercy. One sketch kept folded in a blazer pocket for five years. Then the world ripped them apart.

Years later, their paths cross again in the halls of Westbridge Academy. Francis is the invisible janitor with bruised hands, working four jobs to survive. Maxwell is the perfect heir, top of his class, suffocating under a family that wants to own him.

What starts as recognition turns into obsession.

As they get older, the boy who once let Francis go refuses to ever let go again. Maxwell, brilliant, controlled, and unraveling, becomes madly, dangerously possessive over the only person who ever made him feel human. Francis is his. His to protect, his to keep, his to ruin anyone else who touches.

Freedom Love is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers dark romance about two boys from opposite worlds - one fighting to survive, the other fighting to own the only thing money could never buy.