The Matriarch Mission – The First Sacrifice
Book 0 — Prequel to the Mystery of the Matriarchs series Coming mid-2026
Eighty years before The Matriarch Matrix, the ancestors of Alexander Murometz and Rachel Capsali are already hunting for the legendary black object and the cavern of the blue light.
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?
“Love as you weren’t expecting.”
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 a girl of thirteen when her grandmother walks into a cave and never comes back. What she left behind — a whisper, a pendant, a destiny — will consume the next decade of Oksana’s life, through revolution, exile, two marriages, the birth and loss of a daughter, and a question she cannot answer until she has sacrificed almost everything: What is love?
Her world is real. The gulags, the famines, the Krymchak communities nearly erased from history. The Romanov exile, Barchenko’s polar expeditions, Bokii’s occult obsessions within Soviet intelligence. These happened.
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.
One voice. One timeline. One woman’s journey from a dark cavern in Crimea to the answer that defines the series.
From the award-winning Mystery of the Matriarchs series — winner of eight awards including the American Legacy Book Award, the Kindle Book Review Award, and the Global Book Award. Foreword INDIES Finalist.
For Readers Who Love
If you’ve been moved by the fierce women of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, the intimate first-person intensity of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, or the mythic weight beneath the history in Madeline Miller’s Circe — Oksana’s voice will feel like home. A woman you underestimate at your peril, telling her own story in her own words, from inside the experience, with humor that survives everything the world throws at her.
The Series
The Matriarch Mission (Book 0 — Prequel, coming 2026): The origin. Oksana’s story. Where the whispers began.
The Matriarch Matrix (Book 1): The patriarchs’ legend. Peter and Zara’s quest for the object.
The Matriarch Messiah (Book 2): The matriarchs’ truth. Two women. One prophecy. The answer to what love really means.
The Matriarch Mandate (Book 3 — in development): The reckoning.
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