The Night Dance Tetralogy
Night Dance is a crossover of fiction and non-fiction, blending spirituality, (collective / historical) trauma, and unconventional love stories.
It is a socially critical epic that calls its heroes — as part of a collective healing process — to celebrate their deep pain as uncompromisingly as love and life itself.
Mato Tipila (Bear Lodge), Wyoming, USA
Uluru, Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
So far, Night Dance: Shadow Worlds has been described as a "healing journey," a "socially critical and spiritual epic," "metaphysical and visionary fiction," "psychological fiction," and an "offshoot of magical realism".
Night Dance: Glimmer of Light, the second volume, and Night Dance: A New Dawn, the third installment in the tetralogy, will fall into the same categories.
However, Book 4 (the prequel Night Dance: Prelude) will belong to a single genre: the historical novel.
NIGHT DANCE: Shadow Worlds (Book 1)
(December 2022: Kindle / January 2023: Paperback / February 2024: Hardcover)
Zayla is the only child of the renowned British psychologist and hypnotherapist Professor Dr. Kirkpatrick. Highly gifted and endowed with metaphysical (extrasensory) abilities, the young woman is thrust into the role of an outsider from an early age. In her search for love and acceptance, Zayla becomes entangled in the web of a narcissistic London investment banker.
The trauma of his ancestors rages in Logan's soul. In his worldview, the distinction between "normal" and "paranormal" is meaningless. Logan Black Wolf Chief Diamandis is the descendant of a controversial Lakota warrior leader elevated to legend, and the adopted son of influential media mogul Deimos Diamandis.
The privileged decade in Australia has made the Lakota-American both a misfit and a maverick in his ancestral homeland - transforming him into a
tactically astute wanderer between different worlds.
Zayla's and Logan's lives seem to have no points of contact. Yet their fates, and those of the people closest to them, are more intricately intertwined than they could have imagined. Across generations, continents, and incarnations, a shadow dance begins, challenging both protagonists to embrace their deep pain as uncompromisingly as love and life itself.
Who will succeed in the journey back to their own power?
NIGHT DANCE: Glimmer of Light
Book 2 (2025/26)
Six years after Zayla found refuge in Glastonbury, England, she finds herself caught between three fires: her deep karmic connections to Deimos and Logan, and the cunning intrigues of her child's father, Marrock. Zayla's journey through darkness into light places her in an agonizing dilemma: to finally give in to the desire for vengeance or to practice forgiveness once again.
Driven by longing, Logan returns to Australia. Together with his adoptive brother, he takes on the responsibility of leading their father's media empire. When Logan's grandmother asks him to join Zayla and Travis in searching for the grave of the Black Wolf Chief, fate begins to unfold. Logan must choose between loyalty to the people he loves and his rise to the top of the world.
NIGHT DANCE: A New Dawn
Book 3
Book 3 picks up immediately after the end of Book 2 and recounts the turbulent rise and fall of the three main characters — Zayla, Logan, and Deimos — during a time that shakes the very foundations of the world.
(The prequel) NIGHT DANCE: Prelude
Book 4
Book 4 delves deep into the prehistory of the subplot touched upon in the first three books, set during the so-called "Indian Wars" in North America. Night Dance: Prelude takes its readers on a journey to a bygone era.
The prequel tells the story of Elizabeth Brooke — the sandy-haired Rock-With-Horns-Woman (Tȟuŋkáŋ Hetȟúŋ-wiŋ) from Night Dance: Shadow Worlds — her brother Nathaniel, her husband Standing Elk (Heȟáka Nážiŋ), and his brother-friend, the legendary Black Wolf Chief (Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka Sápe), Logan's ancestor.
Closely intertwined with the lives of these main characters are Colonel Robert Montgomery and his son Charles, both of whom were introduced in Night Dance: Shadow Worlds.
