Like Moonlight on Water (WiP)
💫 Why, how, and chapter list...
Words. Typed.
I’m experimenting by releasing Book 2 in the Daughters series as I finish writing it. Why? Because knowing you’re expecting installments will keep me on task!
Contrary to all the expert and well-meaning advice out there, I edit as I write. Hence, I’m a slow writer.
But that also means this serialized version will be very-nearly the same as the final proofed copy. The one notable difference might be chapter structure. Long chapters are tough to read in an email or on an app, so I may break them into multiple posts. Or I might not.
(This is an experiment, after all, so I’m making it up as I go.)
Spoilers ahead!
Like Moonlight on Water is the sequel to Daughters of Men and begins just four days after the first ends. You’ve been warned.😉
Seriously, though…if you’re new to my work, feel free to dive right in. This novel definitely builds from the details in the first book and the prequel, Forgetting the Lost, but not everyone minds spoilers.
That said, paid subscribers can read Daughters of Men and Forgetting the Lost right here on Substack. (FTL also includes the audiobook chapters.)
(And yep, when you buy from my Shopify store, you can still read on your preferred device—even a Kindle.)
Here’s what to expect…
A good portion of the novel will be available to all subscribers. Paid subscribers will have full access (plus receive the completed ebook).
At the bottom of this page, I’ll keep an updated list of chapters for easy reference.
Book 2, Daughters series
Unable to ignore the booming echoes of another reality's tragedy, Sal compels Lila Givens to explore her alternate lives for clues—but every life she dreams means waking to powerful new memories of the one man she can’t allow herself to love.
Yet there’s no time for her paltry human drama—not with entire worlds at stake, a genius child to protect from meddling aliens, dark energies crowding out her angels…oh, and a clothing store to manage. Because, you know…real life.
But is this her life?
As her bond with this reality—and her child—weakens, her precocious teen lashes out with a psychic ability that even Sal can’t explain. It's just one more secret he must keep from his family. One more choice between betraying the humans he vowed to protect or risking the existence he hopes to save.
Contents:
Ch 2: The Music of the Spheres is a Fugue
Ch 4: And Those That Are Twisted
Ch 18: A Lightening
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