Will of Others

Don't let him in.Even if I ask you to.The messages reach care assistant Ruth Miller moments before Evelyn Ross's treatment ends. When Ruth enters the room, Evelyn asks to see the very man she has been afraid of. She cannot remember sending the warning. She feels better than she has in months.Meridian was designed to ease suffering while leaving memory and choice intact. Now neuroscientist Clara West is finding gaps between what patients say and what their records claim. The voice that guides them does not always fall silent when the equipment does. And the material at the heart of the system has a history her team was never fully given.As Clara follows the discrepancies, the investigation reaches decisions she has kept hidden. Journalist Julian Cross wants the truth. She wants to trust him. Their growing attraction offers a warmth neither expected, while making concealment harder and the prospect of loss more intimate.With the company protecting its investment and patients caught between genuine relief and an increasingly uncertain freedom, Clara must find out whose wishes Meridian is serving.The Will of Others begins The Gods We Let In trilogy: a story of psychological suspense, unsettling presences and the dangerous tenderness of believing you know what another person needs.