Copy editor manuscript vetted. 100% score after Prowritingaid audit. Ready for the proofreader tonight. Book cover designed almost done. Formatters who did The Matriarch Matrix and The Matriarch Messiah on standby. Yay!
Target launch date: Early July.
Here’s the Preface for this next edition in The Mystery of the Matriarchs series:
What if the legends we inherited are only half the story? What if the myths that shaped civilization—the flood, the giants, the fall, the birth of one almighty—were passed down not by patriarchs in temples, but by mothers whispering to daughters in secret? And what if those whispers were systematically erased?
What is love? Not between two people in a single moment, but across generations. Across cultures. Across millennia. What does love look like when a grandmother sacrifices so her granddaughter can carry forward the one truth that might save humanity—and that granddaughter does the same for hers?
Oksana Mangupli is one such woman—a girl of thirteen when she first hears the whispers, who will spend the next decade discovering what she carries and deciding what she will sacrifice to pass it on.
Her world is real. The gulags, the famines, the Krymchak communities nearly erased from history—these are documented. The Romanov exile, Barchenko’s polar and Crimean expeditions, Bokii’s occult obsessions within Soviet intelligence—these happened. Maxime researched them as a historian would.
But Oksana’s world is also larger than history. She inhabits a space where the divine feminine speaks, where ancient genetics carry instructions across millennia, where love is not a feeling but a choice with consequences that outlast lifetimes.
Schooled in traditional French literary fiction, Maxime writes from that sensibility—formal register, philosophical depth, prose that breathes rather than races. The dialogue is formal because the characters are not native English speakers. The mythology is not decoration. It is the architecture.
Oksana’s story is the origin. The world she sets in motion continues in The Matriarch Matrix and The Matriarch Messiah, where her descendants face the consequences of every choice she makes in these pages. You need not have read them to feel what Oksana feels. But when you finish, you may want to know what became of the promises she made.
If this is your first encounter with the Mystery of the Matriarchs, trust her voice. She earned it.
