A Wicked Awakening – When the Universe Dances to the Beat of One Woman’s Heart
They say some people are born to move the world.
For Chérie Abella Manhattan, that’s not a metaphor — it’s her destiny.
By day, Chérie is a small-town aerobics instructor trying to make rent and keep her boss from devouring her soul (literally). By night — and in dreams she can’t explain — she’s a Galaxy Dancer, a cosmic being whose heartbeat helps synchronize the rhythm of the entire universe. But when the delicate balance between the stars and her own heart begins to falter, everything she thought she knew about herself starts to unravel.
A woman between two worlds
Her boss, Jill Primcott, is more than just a bully with a bad dye job and a worse attitude. She commands an army of red-eyed, bat-like creatures that feed on human insecurities. And for some reason, she’s made Chérie her personal target.
At the same time, Chérie’s waking and dream lives start to blur. A mysterious stranger — a man with hair like midnight and eyes that burn brighter than the sun — slips into her world with a whisper: “Sexy girl.” Then he vanishes… only to return in her dreams, where desire and danger intertwine in ways she can’t control.
Love, lies, and cosmic longing
Meanwhile, her boyfriend Cam Tyson — an adrenaline junkie and self-proclaimed outdoors god — can’t understand why Chérie seems distant, detached, or why intimacy feels like another kind of battle she’s doomed to lose. She wants to please him, to feel something real, but she’s haunted by the sense that her soul belongs somewhere else — to someone else.
As if that weren’t enough, a new student joins her aerobics class: a mysterious old woman with hawk-like eyes and cryptic words that seem to pierce straight into Chérie’s memories. Each class leaves her more shaken, more off-balance, as forgotten truths begin to rise from the depths of her subconscious.
A wild, witty, and deeply human awakening
With her sanity hanging by a thread and her past threatening to devour her, Chérie is thrust into a surreal collision of fantasy, sexuality, and self-discovery. A Wicked Awakening isn’t just about good versus evil — it’s about the battle we fight within ourselves: between shame and desire, fear and love, chaos and the cosmic rhythm of truth.
Told with biting humor, raw emotion, and moments of absolute absurdity, this novel is part urban fantasy, part metaphysical adventure, and part psychological awakening. It’s a story for readers who crave something daringly different — where the spiritual meets the sensual, and the ridiculous meets the sublime.
If you’ve ever felt like you don’t quite belong in your own skin… if you’ve ever wanted to understand what happens when the heart becomes the axis of the universe — then A Wicked Awakening will leave you laughing, questioning, and utterly transformed.
And if you’re new to this world, start with the free short story, A Wicked Choice, featuring a bonus excerpt from A Wicked Awakening — available now for a limited time.
They say some people are born to move the world.
For Chérie Abella Manhattan, that’s not a metaphor — it’s her destiny.
By day, Chérie is a small-town aerobics instructor trying to make rent and keep her boss from devouring her soul (literally). By night — and in dreams she can’t explain — she’s a Galaxy Dancer, a cosmic being whose heartbeat helps synchronize the rhythm of the entire universe. But when the delicate balance between the stars and her own heart begins to falter, everything she thought she knew about herself starts to unravel.
A woman between two worlds
Her boss, Jill Primcott, is more than just a bully with a bad dye job and a worse attitude. She commands an army of red-eyed, bat-like creatures that feed on human insecurities. And for some reason, she’s made Chérie her personal target.
At the same time, Chérie’s waking and dream lives start to blur. A mysterious stranger — a man with hair like midnight and eyes that burn brighter than the sun — slips into her world with a whisper: “Sexy girl.” Then he vanishes… only to return in her dreams, where desire and danger intertwine in ways she can’t control.
Love, lies, and cosmic longing
Meanwhile, her boyfriend Cam Tyson — an adrenaline junkie and self-proclaimed outdoors god — can’t understand why Chérie seems distant, detached, or why intimacy feels like another kind of battle she’s doomed to lose. She wants to please him, to feel something real, but she’s haunted by the sense that her soul belongs somewhere else — to someone else.
As if that weren’t enough, a new student joins her aerobics class: a mysterious old woman with hawk-like eyes and cryptic words that seem to pierce straight into Chérie’s memories. Each class leaves her more shaken, more off-balance, as forgotten truths begin to rise from the depths of her subconscious.
A wild, witty, and deeply human awakening
With her sanity hanging by a thread and her past threatening to devour her, Chérie is thrust into a surreal collision of fantasy, sexuality, and self-discovery. A Wicked Awakening isn’t just about good versus evil — it’s about the battle we fight within ourselves: between shame and desire, fear and love, chaos and the cosmic rhythm of truth.
Told with biting humor, raw emotion, and moments of absolute absurdity, this novel is part urban fantasy, part metaphysical adventure, and part psychological awakening. It’s a story for readers who crave something daringly different — where the spiritual meets the sensual, and the ridiculous meets the sublime.
If you’ve ever felt like you don’t quite belong in your own skin… if you’ve ever wanted to understand what happens when the heart becomes the axis of the universe — then A Wicked Awakening will leave you laughing, questioning, and utterly transformed.
And if you’re new to this world, start with the free short story, A Wicked Choice, featuring a bonus excerpt from A Wicked Awakening — available now for a limited time.