Serpent Rising. The Saga of Venom and Flame, #1

Winner - Best New Age Fiction, 2021 International Book AwardsSerena Mendez is haunted and she is hunted...... Haunted by trauma-terrified and scarred as a young child, when a secret initiation into an ancient order of Lightbringers went horribly wrong. Unaware of the power latent in her blood, she is haunted by a life out of sync with her true identity. At twenty-one, she is abrasive, jobless, in debt, and addicted to sedatives.
Haunted by her past, she knows nothing of her destiny.... Hunted by an enemy-ruthless and powerful, a Brotherhood that has been pitted against the Luminarian Sects for thousands of years. An ancient struggle rages on-The War of the Two Serpents-a saga extending back to the dawn of civilization, to the time of the second breaking, when the elite sought dominion over the masses. Those serving truth and light opposed these dark forces.
In return they were persecuted, burned as witches, suppressed and nearly defeated by the powers of darkness. But the flame was not extinguished. An old Navajo dream-walker had a plan to open the seven chakras mystically binding Serena's power. To fulfill her true destiny, to unleash the latent power within her blood, Serena journeys to six continents where she uncovers the truth of who she is, and what she must do.
A warrior stirs, a Lightbringer. She is Serena Mendez. She is awakening. She is a Candelaria.Serpent Rising is a story of unfulfilled destiny, discovery, transformation, and courage to embrace the truth.