About

Anusia

The person who created the room she wished existed.

The story

part awakening, part fantasy

The cost of a life you never questioned

Ember Brooke is sharp, ambitious, and on the path to making partner at one of the country's most prestigious law firms. Beneath the polish, though, something is pulling at her that she can't quite name.

When a meditation cracks her awareness open, she glimpses a reality she was never meant to remember. An old yoga mat of her mother's pulls her into Resonance, a hidden world where she discovers her family's relentless pursuit of success wasn't only ambition. It was engineered.

With an unlikely team beside her, a rogue technologist, a skeptical healer, and one very loyal hound, Ember has to face both the executive who wants to destroy Resonance and the part of herself still tethered to the life she thought she wanted.

Open book on a table with a glass bottle holding a pink flower, with blurred green and white background and sunlight shining through curtains.
The Soul Toll logo mark.  A circular drawing, culminating in a star...simulating an idea taking shape and taking flight.

"At its core, Soul Toll is about rediscovering what truly matters, beyond the promotions, power, and prestige, and finding the courage to reclaim your true self."

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Where it all began

Why "Soul Toll"

The novel is the story that started everything: the podcast, the Bottega, the whole Soul Toll world. The Energy Audit, the world-building, the idea that success can quietly cost you yourself, it all grew out of Ember's story first.

Soul Toll is the cost and the tradeoff of ignoring the elixir, the pull you keep telling to stay quiet.

The author

Anusia Gillespie

A lawyer turned novelist and certified yoga instructor, Anusia spent her career across global law firms, legal tech startups, and Harvard Law School Executive Education before writing her debut novel. That insider view of high-performance culture, and its hidden costs, runs straight through Soul Toll.

Read Anusia's story

Read Soul Toll

Start with the story that started it all. Available now as an ebook and in paperback.