- Jul 12
Actually, I finished the manuscript in October 2025 with a whopping 156k-plus words. Then came the first editing pass where I slashed and burned more than 30,000 words from the original. By March 2026, I started the second editing pass and further trimmed and tightened until my word count came in just under 109k words. It is now in review with a consulting agent at MSWL for package querying. So excited!
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I smile at my youngest baby, whose fist reaches up, reaching for Diwa’s chin. I say a quiet prayer of thanks to my three fae. And to my many-times-great-grandfather, I whisper in Gaelic: “She’s home, Grandda.”
~ THE END ~
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Linked only by an 18th-century ancestor, siblings gifted with mystical foresight must find each other across time to stop a ruthless dictator determined to destroy them and erase the legacy of their gifts.
She was born with a mole near her right iris, so close it seemed to merge with the green of her eye. The Ati elders called her binukot—the chosen one. To them, she was the living embodiment of Dalikamata, the Goddess of a Thousand Eyes. Like the goddess, she could see what others could not: the past and present, near and far. Diwa Bandera was more than a symbol of their ancient heritage—she was their hope for survival. But when her family’s sanctuary in Manila is shattered by violence under a ruthless dictator, Diwa is forced into hiding among the Ati in the mountains of Panay.
Ron MacKenzie Mitchell has always been haunted by his second sight, the mystical An Da Shealladh that connects him to realms beyond the ordinary. When a vision reveals a young woman in grave danger, Ron embarks on a search for answers that upends everything he thought he knew about himself as a third-generation Scottish-American. Through his visions and ancestral research, Ron discovers his bloodline traces back to a shipwrecked Highlander and an Ati healer, whose union began a legacy that connects him to Diwa. She isn’t just a distant cousin—she is the missing link that ties their stories together.
For Diwa, the stakes couldn’t be higher. She must decide: stay to protect her people and their sacred heritage or journey to America with Ron, where her visions promise true love and the uniting of two worlds. Together, Diwa and Ron must unravel their shared destiny and wield their ancestral gifts to stop those who would destroy everything their bloodline has fought to protect.
