Age of the Serpent.
A woman waking to the witch she didn’t know she was. A dangerous love that finds her across lifetimes. And, ultimately, a battle to change the world.
Age of the Serpent is a seven-book series following screenwriter Ava Cassidy from London to Hollywood and back again as her world becomes larger, darker, and far stranger than she ever imagined.
As Ava steps into her power, she discovers that lives repeat, the dead don’t leave, and patterns follow us until we finally learn how to break them.
At the heart of the series is a dangerous attraction that has found Ava across centuries, and one question she has never fully answered: can she surrender to love without surrendering herself? Each book brings her closer to understanding who she is, what she can do, and why she keeps returning to the same people, the same places and the same unfinished story in lifetime after lifetime.
But Ava’s awakening is not only personal. She starts to understand that her struggle is part of something vast and ancient. A rebalancing of masculine and feminine energies. A rising of witches. The destruction of the structures built to keep women down. And so, what begins as Ava’s fight to reclaim who she truly is becomes a battle for the future of the world itself.
Because Ava is not the only woman waking up.
Meet Ava Cassidy.
She thinks her destiny is Hollywood. She’s only half right.
Ava Cassidy is a fiercely ambitious London screenwriter, smart, self-possessed, and certain she’s meant for Hollywood. She’s always had gifts she can’t explain: an uncanny ability to read people, flashes of the future, and a strange talent for making things happen simply by wanting them badly enough. For most of her life, she’s brushed them aside.
Then they become impossible to ignore.
As Ava wakes up, she’s forced to confront the possibility that the strangest thing in her world is not the dead woman guiding her, the dreams that feel like memories, or the unsettling events that seem to follow her wherever she goes.
It’s her.
Slowly, she remembers. She reclaims her power. She begins to understand why, lifetime after lifetime, she has returned to the same love, the same danger, and the same unfinished mission. Most importantly, she finally sees why this life is different.
This time, she’s here to change the world.
Book One: Firecracker
The first novel in the Age of the Serpent series, and the start of Ava Cassidy’s awakening.
Ava Cassidy’s story begins with a dangerous man, a Hollywood opportunity, and strange events she can’t explain.
As Drew Manning draws her deeper into his world, Ava’s buried gifts begin to surface. A dead woman guides her. Dreams seem like memories. She begins to remember the lives she’s lived before. And the more reality shifts around her, the harder it becomes to deny the truth.
Ava is a witch. And she’s starting to reclaim her power.
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