In a land where breath becomes power and sunlight can feed the body, Li-Yan of Sun Fu is sent down from the mountains to carry her master’s teachings into a troubled empire.

Drawn into a brutal arena city of gamblers, ghosts, and hidden demons, she must choose—again and again—between the Way of the Open Palm and the path of the Closed Fist, knowing each choice leaves a mark on more than just her enemies.

A girl who forgot to eat. A palace haunted by silence. A memory traded for power.

Set in a mythic West Africa shaped by Yorùbá cosmology and ancestral knowing, Daughter of the Dry Season is about a young girl who survives the unimaginable—and awakens to a path that defies the laws of hunger, time, and memory.

A poetic novel of Pranic Living, spiritual resilience, and the invisible threads that bind us across lifetimes.

A tale of forgetting, and the grace of being remembered.