Daughters of the Wind: A Mythic Fantasy

Book club favorite and acclaimed author of No Better Time and The Secret Women makes her first foray into the mythical fantasy genre with this epic tale of legacy, power, sacrifice, and family bonds that is a call to action wrapped in elemental magic.

Aeola St. James is no ordinary CEO. While navigating boardroom politics and the chaos of motherhood, she harbors a secret: she is Keeper of the Winds, an elemental being who can read the landscape and harness the wind. The planet is warming faster than it should, and Aeola senses catastrophe.

To ward off disaster, Aeola must gather the “Daughters of the Wind” from every epoch and corner of the globe, including her own daughters, whom she has hidden for their protection: Buran, a mammoth hunter in Ice Age North America; Burga, her Eurasian counterpart and a skilled falconer; Siree, a midwife to the Kushite royal house; Zonda of the Cloud People, masters of the Andean peaks; and Mistral, mercurial and fierce, a survivor of a medieval witch hunt.

As Aeola time-travels across the globe, an enemy waits. Tech billionaire Wills Holloway has devised a plan to monetize climate correction by launching a missile into the stratosphere and seeding it with a cooling compound. His corporate intelligence reveals that Aeola’s company has a mechanism that will facilitate the dispersal of his creation, and he initiates a hostile takeover. But Wills has no idea that the “mechanism” he seeks to acquire is Aeola herself.

As the climate clock ticks, Aeola uses her gifts to outsmart the intensely introverted Holloway and persuade him to partner with her and the Daughters of the Wind to give the blue planet a fighting chance.