Forthcoming:

Those Who Stayed 

The Tides of Freedom:

The Slow Drowning of Democracy 

When democracy dies, it doesn't always fall with a crash. Sometimes it drowns — slowly, quietly, one policy at a time. On the Caribbean island nation of Puerto Libertad, constitutional scholar Sofía Domínguez watches in disbelief as a populist leader rises to power despite losing the popular vote. 

What begins as political theater soon becomes something far darker: mass deportations, detention centers, journalists silenced, universities purged, citizens reclassified as "non-persons." As Sofía's own brother disappears into the regime's machinery, she must choose between the safety of academic neutrality and joining a dangerous resistance network of doctors, journalists, priests, and military officers who refuse to let democracy die without a fight. Written by a scholar of migration and society, this political thriller includes an analytical epilogue examining democratic backsliding in contemporary societies.

"Some things, once lost, can be found again. But only through courage, sacrifice, and the stubborn insistence that human dignity cannot be registered away." 

English · Includes analytical epilogue 

Kindle  · Paperback · Audiobook → 

→ English: https://mybook.to/TidesOfFreedom

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The Sinkhole

Climate Fiction set in Port Townsend, WA

March 2035. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggers a catastrophic sinkhole that consumes the heart of Port Townsend, Washington in seconds. Marine biologist Isabel Reyes throws six children across a widening crack before it becomes a chasm. They survive. The Marine Science Center, and everyone inside, does not. Now Isabel is responsible for six orphaned children in a refugee camp with no running water, no medical supplies, and no government response. Eight-year-old Daniel hasn't spoken since watching his best friend die. Reed Hawthorne is documenting the dead instead of climate data. His daughter Mary is learning to record testimony because someone has to bear witness.

What emerges in the Chimacum Valley is an experiment in democratic survival — and an unflinching accounting of what it costs. Sociocracy circles for decision-making under catastrophe. Consensus processes that function but require people to break. A radio network broadcasting to forty communities that shrinks to fifteen as the peninsula collapses. Over one brutal year: forty people die from preventable causes. And then, an armed community called Shelton arrives with three thousand people and takes control anyway.

The Sinkhole isn't about preventing climate collapse. It's about what democratic organizing actually costs under catastrophic conditions — and what happens when someone with superior force decides your success makes you worth taking. 

Climate fiction · English  

Kindle - Paperback - Audiobook → https://mybook.to/TheSinkhole

Echoes of liberty:
Antonio Nariño and the birth of Colombia 

(with Mauricio Beltrán) 

Una noche de 1793, un hombre arriesgó todo por una idea. Antonio Nariño tenía fortuna, posición y una familia que adoraba — pero cuando sus manos tocaron las páginas de la Declaración de los Derechos del Hombre, supo que su vida cambiaría para siempre. What began as a clandestine translation in the dim light of his printing press became the spark that ignited a continent. Told through the voices of those who loved him, followed him, and lost him — his wife Magdalena who kept the flame of resistance burning while he languished in prison, the mestizo musician who built a spy network through melody, the freed slave who became a soldier of liberty — this is not just the story of a hero. It is the story of what ideals cost when pursued to their final consequence: thirty years of imprisonment, a confiscated fortune, a wife dead in his absence, children divided by war. 

English & Spanish

Kindle - Paperback
Title in Spanish: Antonio Nariño: Ecos de Libertad: Antonio Nariño y el Nacimiento de Colombia

Spanish: https://mybook.to/EcosDeLibertad
English: https://mybook.to/EchoesOfLiberty   

Manuelita Sáenz:
The Untamed Liberator

Quito, 1797: a girl marked by the scandal of her birth is locked in a convent. But behind stone walls, among forbidden books and dreams of freedom, a revolutionary is born. Lima, 1822: a woman married to a respectable Englishman abandons everything — fortune, reputation, security — for a man and a cause: Simón Bolívar and the independence of the Americas. Bogotá, 1828: when conspirators come to kill the Liberator in the dead of night, only she stands in their way. With her body. With her voice. With her defiance. Narrated through unexpected voices — the streets of Quito that watched her grow, the letters that guarded her secrets, the window through which Bolívar escaped — this novel restores to Manuelita the place that was stolen from her: the center of her own story. Not the story of a woman who loved a hero. The story of a heroine history tried to erase.

English & Spanish

Kindle - Paperback
Title in Spanish: Manuelita Sáenz: Libertadora Indomable

Spanish: https://mybook.to/ManuelitaSaenz
English: https://mybook.to/ManuelitaUntamed     

José María Melo:
Warrior Without Borders 

(with Guillermo Padilla)

A controversial and complex figure that dominant Colombian historical narrative has vilified, whitewashed, and marginalized — this novel rescues him from oblivion. Of Pijao indigenous roots, Melo rose from the battlefields of independence to the presidency of Colombia, then fell into exile in Central America and Mexico. 

This historical novel explores what official accounts omit: how his indigenous roots shaped his worldview, his internal conflict when he seized power by force, and his unbreakable commitment to the poor, the artisans, and the indigenous communities. Not a biography — a historical re-creation that illuminates the ideas and contributions of a contradictory and fascinating leader, offering a new perspective on a crucial period in the formation of Colombian and Latin American identity. 

English & Spanish

Kindle - Paperback
Title in Spanish: José María Melo: Guerrero Sin Fronteras

Spanish: https://mybook.to/JMMeloGuerrero
English: https://mybook.to/JMMeloWarrier  

The Comandante's Shadow 

In 1979, Daniel Ortega stood on a balcony in Managua promising democracy and justice to a nation finally free from dictatorship. Forty-six years later, that same palace is the center of a regime that eliminates opponents, silences critics, and rules through fear — all in the name of protecting the revolution. 

Told through the eyes of an American teacher who witnessed Nicaragua's transformation firsthand, this gripping historical novel traces Ortega's journey from idealistic guerrilla fighter to authoritarian ruler: the literacy campaigns and land reform that gave way to surveillance networks; the sixteen years in opposition learning to make deals with former enemies; the constitutional manipulation and family dynasty; and the systematic elimination of anyone who still remembers what the revolution was supposed to achieve. 

A devastating portrait of how liberators become oppressors — and how quickly the language of liberation becomes the vocabulary of repression.

"In our era of democratic backsliding worldwide, this novel serves as both warning and witness." 

Kindle · Paperback · Audiobook
Title in Spanish: La Sombra del Comandante

English: https://mybook.to/ComandanteShadow

Spanish: https://mybook.to/SombraDelComandante 

The Cousin Jacks

When the last tin mine in Cornwall closes, three brothers take different ships to different continents — one to the copper ranges of Upper Michigan, one to the gold fields of California, one to the silver mines of Guanajuato, Mexico. They carry with them the same skills, the same hymns, and the same unspoken question: what does it mean to be Cornish when Cornwall can no longer hold you?

Told across two generations and three countries, The Cousin Jacks follows what the diaspora built — communities tight enough to survive any mine disaster, clannish enough to make outsiders of their own children — and what it cost. The men who left Cornwall never stopped being Cornish. Their sons, born in Michigan or California or Mexico, never quite became anything else. The Cousin Jacks is a novel about the inheritance of identity across distance, and what gets lost in the crossing.

Kindle, Paperback & Audiobook  - 

English: https://mybook.to/CousinJacks 

Hermanos
de Sangre 

A family saga that is also the story of Colombia itself — and a novel that dares to argue that reconciliation is possible.

En 1964 nacen Carlos y Nicolás Mendoza, hermanos mellizos en una familia bogotana de clase media. Siete minutos los separan al nacer — décadas de diferencias ideológicas los alejarán hasta convertirlos en extraños. 

Carlos se convierte en exitoso empresario del mundo del polo y los seguros, navegando las élites bogotanas con pragmatismo. Nicolás abraza la causa guerrillera del M-19, evoluciona hacia la política democrática, y termina conquistando la presidencia de Colombia después de décadas de lucha por la justicia social.

 A través de seis décadas de historia colombiana — desde la violencia de los años 70 hasta el proceso de paz del siglo XXI — los hermanos se protegen mutuamente en secreto, construyen familias en mundos opuestos, y aprenden que el amor fraternal puede sobrevivir cualquier diferencia ideológica. 

Spanish  -  Kindle - Paperback →
Spanish: https://mybook.to/HermanosDeSangre  

Common Ground

Stories of Knowledge and Belonging

What do we owe the knowledge that shaped us? And what happens when sharing it means risking its destruction? 

In six interlocking stories spanning four decades and three continents, Common Ground follows masters of rare disciplines — an art conservator who sees hidden layers in colonial paintings, a cartographer learning to map what instruments cannot measure, a chef carrying three traditions of fire in his scarred hands — as they confront the impossible ethics of knowledge that survives only by staying hidden. 

A documentary filmmaker deletes eleven minutes of sacred footage while a tribal council watches. A meteorologist discovers the atmosphere preserves chemical signatures of mass graves. 

Moving from a Danish smokehouse to Hong Kong street kitchens, from Bogotá's violence to Alaska's traditional healing rooms, from the stone gardens of Kyoto to the salmon rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Paperback

English: https://mybook.to/CommonGround 

Echoes of connection

A Century of Information and Communication Technologies 

In 1878, a domestic worker in New York touched a telephone for the first time and felt the world fold. In 2025, her great-great-granddaughter decided to turn off her smartphone and walk home the long way.

Between those two moments: six generations of three families navigating every major technological revolution of the last 150 years. The Johnsons in the United States, shaped by each new wave of communication technology from the switchboard to social media. The Garcías in Colombia, where a single radio broadcast during La Violencia saves one family and condemns another. The Diops in Senegal, where a colonial telegraph office becomes the unlikely seedbed of an independence movement — and where, decades later, a content moderator in Dakar decides what Americans are allowed to see.

A novel that tracks not just how technology changes, but how it changes us: who gets to speak, who gets heard, and what happens when the tools we built to connect us become the tools that sort us.

English & Spanish

Paperback - Kindle - Audiobook
Title in Spanish: Ecos de Conexión

English: https://mybook.to/EchoesOfConnection 

Spanish: https://mybook.to/EcosConexion  

Voices in Motion

Stories of Migration

Luis cleans office buildings in downtown Seattle from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He knows the contents of every executive’s trash can and the names of no one in the building. José, a gay Colombian engineer, writes code in Silicon Valley by day and erases himself by night. Gabriela, raised in the United States since age three, carries a DACA card that makes her legal enough to work but not enough to breathe. Javier dies in ICE detention and the paperwork lists the cause as “complications.”

Fifteen characters. Fifteen ways of being invisible in plain sight.

Drawn from a decade of interviews with actual migrants, Voices in Motion brings the immigration experience to life not through statistics or policy arguments but through the people who live it: the night janitor who finds community through organizing, the trafficking survivor rebuilding trust one conversation at a time, the professional who discovers that success in America doesn’t cure the ache of displacement.

English & Spanish · Kindle · Paperback

Title in Spanish: Voces en Movimiento

ENG → https://mybook.to/VoicesInMotion

SPA → https://mybook.to/VocesEnMovimiento

Children of the Sacred Current

Tahiti, 1850. A gift that passes through five generations of women. A hundred and seventy years of colonial history, nuclear testing, and digital transformation — witnessed by those who can feel the mana moving through everything.

When fifteen-year-old Vairaumati dives for pearls in waters her ancestors have known for generations, a sacred pearl chooses her — and with it, the ability to see the mana, the current of life-force flowing through all living things, as threads of light weaving through water, objects, and people. It is a gift that will pass through her bloodline for five generations, evolving with each daughter born into a changing world.

 Spanning 170 years of Polynesian history, this sweeping saga follows the women of the Maeva line through the fall of the Tahitian monarchy, two World Wars, French nuclear testing in the Pacific, and the digital revolution that reaches even the most remote islands. From pearl diving in pristine lagoons to decoding satellite signals, from colonial resistance to cultural preservation in the internet age, it is a story about what we inherit, what we protect, and what we pass on.

Title in Spanish: Las Hijas de la Corriente Sagrada
Title in French: Les enfants du courant sacré

Paperback & Kindle

Spanish: https://mybook.to/HijasDeCorrienteSagrad

English: https://mybook.to/ChildrenOfSacredCurren 

French: https://mybook.to/EnfantsDuCourantSacre