Salt & Lightning

You do not need to be saved. You only need to wake up.

Luna is thirty years old, and she is tired of being stone.

Living in the shadow of her father's rigid Pillar and under the suffocating care of Soteira, a teacher who promises safety at the cost of freedom, Luna exists in a world of gray. She has learned to bind her own wings, to swallow her voice, and to mistake a cage for a cradle. But on the day of her Saturn Return, the ancient gods do not bring her peace. They bring her a storm.

When a pilgrimage to the Temple of Zeus ends in a terrifying and ecstatic strike of lightning, the walls of Luna's carefully constructed reality begin to crumble. Suddenly awake in a sleeping world, she must navigate a treacherous landscape of archetypes: the crushing Lead of depression, the paralyzing Amber of narcissistic control, and the cold Stone of family expectation.

Guided by the wounded healer Chiron and the weaver Chariklo, Luna must learn the First Magic: the art of drawing a boundary. She must learn to separate who she is from who she was told to be.

Salt & Lightning is a mythic fiction novella that weaves the grandeur of Greek mythology with the depth of Jungian psychology. It is a story for anyone who has ever felt the weight of an unlived life, for those who suspect that their "madness" might actually be their vitality, and for every soul ready to stop pouring from an empty cup.

The lightning has struck. The amber is melting. Are you ready to burn?