The Night Dance Saga

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Reincarnation novel • Historical fiction •

Women’s fiction • Psychological fiction •

Social critique • Magical realism •

Healing journey • Suspense & adventure.

“Our deepest traumas, held in love, will heal humanity.” This sentence is the quiet heart beating beneath the surface of the Night Dance saga. It’s program, essence, direction. The stories I tell revolve around people whose deepest wounds do not heal through fight or repression, but through the power of conscious, radical love. Not a romanticized healing - but a love that doesn’t avoid pain, gives it space, and holds it.

In my saga, personal, collective and historical traumas are interwoven with the biographies of my characters, embedded in larger fields of war, colonialism and spiritual forgetting. What transforms these traumas is not revenge, control or amnesia. It’s the decision to face what is: feeling, loving, truthful.

“Held in love” here means an active holding - an inner stance in the storm of memory, as old wounds break open and we meet them head‑on. My characters encounter the past, the pain of their ancestral lines, the echoes of older cultures, and realize these wounds are not only personal - they mirror a greater human wound.

So Night Dance also shows that true healing is never only individual. When a human being begins to hold their pain in love, it touches a collective field. It changes relationships, families, societies - perhaps even history. In this sense, my saga is an invitation: to return, to remember, to embrace pain in love - and to the possibility of a new humanity.

Book 1 Night Dance: Shadow Worlds is an intimate, spiritual and socially critical novel tracing lifetimes of entanglement - and the quiet courage it takes to heal. Expect trauma and tenderness, fractured timelines and a thread of love that insists on being found.

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Night Dance looks deeply into human abyss. Through the eyes of the British medium Zayla and the Native American Logan, the series connects the traumas and primal wounds of eight people on three continents. It’s a moving story about the meaning and magic of life, the monumental power of love and the holding of our darkest shadows. Across continents, generations and incarnations, Zayla and Logan are called to celebrate their deepest pain as uncompromisingly as they do love and life. Who will find the way back into their own power?

“Clinging to hatred and rage is like eating rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”  (Zayla)

Currently in translation. English release planned for Spring 2026. Preorder opens in late 2025.

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!! Spoiler warning if you haven’t read Book 1 !!

Six years after Zayla found refuge in Glastonbury, England, she finds herself caught between three fires: the elaborate intrigues of her child’s father and her love for Logan and Deimos - souls she has been deeply connected with for many lives. Within the circle of the priestesses of the Isle of Apples, her journey through darkness into light brings her in an agonzing dilemma: give in to the desire for vengeance - or practise forgiveness again.

Longing drives Logan back to Australia. Together with his adoptive brother he steps into their father’s media empire. When Logan’s grandmother asks him to seek the grave of the Black Wolf Chief with Zayla and Travis, fate is set in motion. Logan must choose between loyalty to the people he loves and his ascent to the top of the world.

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Book 3 picks up immediately after the end of Book 2 and recounts the turbulent rise and fall of the three main characters - Zayla, Logan, and Deimos - during a time that shakes the very foundations of the world.

Book 4 delves deep into the prehistory of the subplot touched upon in the first three books, set during the so-called "Indian Wars" in North America. Night Dance: Prelude takes its readers on a journey to a bygone era.

The prequel tells the story of Elizabeth Brooke - the sandy-haired Rock-With-Horns-Woman from Night Dance: Shadow Worlds - her brother Nathaniel, her husband Standing Elk, and his brother-friend, the legendary Black Wolf Chief, Logan's ancestor.

Closely intertwined with the lives of these main characters are Colonel Robert Montgomery and his son Charles, both of whom were introduced in Night Dance: Shadow Worlds.

Shortly before the turn of the millennium, reading Clark Wissler’s description of the Lakȟóta Night Dance (Haŋwáčhipi) inspired the title of my tetralogy. The saga is not only about bringing collective and individual shadows to light, but also about ancient soul‑bonds and the power of the heart - so the title resonated on many levels.

“Night‑Dance… The members were unmarried… As the songs for this dance were sung, a man would rise and dance with a present which he then presented to one of the young women… At the close a feast was made.” - Clark Wissler (1912)

“Haŋwáčhipi - Night Dance… they would get together and dance almost all night long… they usually danced holding each other in the arms (men with women).” - Lakota Dictionary (2011)