Finalist in the prestigious Forward Indies Book Award (awaiting winner decisions)
Unforgettable epic stories portrayed in mythic literary speculative fiction style driven by the characters’ emotional cores.
The Mystery of the Matriarchs is built on a single proposition: the foundational myths of civilization — the flood, the giants, the fall, the birth of one almighty — were transmitted not by patriarchs in temples, but by mothers whispering to daughters across millennia. And those whispers were systematically erased.
This is a series about what love costs when it operates across generations — and what humanity loses when the women who carried its deepest truths are silenced.
Winner of eight major awards including the juried Kindle Book Review Award and Independent Author Network Award.
The origin. Oksana Mangupli is thirteen when she first hears the whispers. Over the next decade — through revolution, exile, love, betrayal, and the birth of a daughter she will lose — she discovers what she carries and what she must sacrifice to pass it on. One voice. One timeline. The accessible entry point to the series.
The patriarchs’ legend. Peter Gollinger, a quiet California editor, chases the oral tradition his grandfather left him — a tale of giants, a falling star, and an object buried since the last ice age. Destiny pairs him with Zara Khatum, a former Kurdish warrior who only wants peace. What neither understands is that the legend they’re chasing was never meant for men. Winner, 2026 American Legacy Book Award — Science Fiction
The matriarchs’ truth. Two women — Zara and Rachel, an Israeli Torah historian — follow their great-grandmothers’ dying words toward the same cavern. One prophecy says only one will survive. Between them, four lives converge on the question the series has been asking since its first page: Who will be the Messiah of modern times? Winner of seven awards in 2025 including the Kindle Book Review Award and the Independent Author Network Award.
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