the messages nyt cover (shadow)The Messages: A Journey for Those Called to Heal, Awaken, and Lead with Love.

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What if the life you built had to crumble — so the person you were born to be could finally emerge?

While raising three young children and thriving in a successful career, Dawn Kohler was abruptly pulled into a spiritual calling she couldn’t ignore. What followed was a riveting journey through childhood trauma, searing betrayals, and an uncanny healing process that led to awakening—and a purpose far greater than herself.

This unforgettable memoir takes you deep inside an odyssey of truth, spiritual insight, and the redemptive power of love. It’s for anyone who feels the stirrings of change, senses a deeper calling, or longs to heal—both personally and collectively. With honesty and courage, Dawn’s story offers hope, guidance, and a powerful reminder that personal transformation is not only possible—it’s urgently needed.      Read more

The Invitation Front Cover Shadowed 2025 225x300The Invitation: A Weekend with Emma

Grand Prize Winner San Francisco Beach Book Festival 2015

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After losing her job as a reporter, Kate Edwards receives an unexpected invitation from the one woman she’s always longed to interview — Emma Daines, the reclusive former U.S. ambassador to Germany, who was instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall. Emma’s legacy is legendary, but so is her mistrust of journalists. For decades, she has fiercely guarded a deeply personal secret involving her five-year-old daughter, Sarah — one the press has long tried to uncover.

Set against the quiet beauty of a Northern California beach town, The Invitation is a poignant and emotionally rich novel about ambition, trust, and the universal longing to be truly understood. As Kate walks the tightrope between professional ambition and personal vulnerability, she uncovers Emma’s hidden memoir—an intimate account of family sacrifice, emotional wounds, and the quiet courage that shaped a remarkable life. But as Kate delves deeper into Emma’s story, she uncovers a truth far closer to home than she ever imagined.       Read more

madre (shadow)Madre: A Fable of Ancient Wisdom and the Birth of a New World

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What if the future of the world depended on the awakening of women?

Alma, a single mother, is doing her best to care for her young son and aging grandmother while enduring a soulless corporate job and a boss who belittles her at every turn. Then, by the river, a mysterious woman appears—radiant, magnetic, and speaking in soul-stirring messages about healing, returning to the body, and a new world ready to be born through women.

As Alma is drawn into the mystery, she must face the shame she carries, the absence of her mother, and the unworthiness that has defined her life. With her grandmother’s ancestral stories as her guide and her son as her mirror, she begins to awaken to her own power—and to the possibility that she, too, has a role in birthing a more compassionate future.

Blending mystical realism with ancestral wisdom, Madre is a modern fable of women remembering who they are, healing what has kept them small, and rising to the sacred task of creating a new world.

For readers of The Alchemist, Women Who Run with the Wolves, and The Red Tent, this novel is both an invitation and a prophecy—calling us to listen, to heal, and to rise.

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