Onward Christian Soldiers

The Kongo, 1699. She is fifteen, and her mind will not sit still.
Beatriz was supposed to be a healer. Her mother's lineage. Her aunt's teaching. The nganga schools her family sent her to when her gifts first showed. She failed at all of it - not for lack of effort but because her mind refused to conform.

Then a saint began speaking to her.

He asked her to do impossible things. Raise a capital that had been abandoned for three generations. Unite a kingdom that had been tearing itself apart for forty years. Tell a king, to his face, that his throne was the reason his people were being sold into slavery.

She did.

She is neurodivergent - three centuries before the word exists. A mind built for patterns the world is not ready to see. Visions that leave her palms burning. Rootwork her mother taught her. And a prophecy that may or may not be madness.

A novel of visions, rootwork, and the girl who became the single word her enemies could not kill - a word that crossed an ocean, survived the Middle Passage, and was shouted at a river in South Carolina starting the largest slave revolt in American history.

Based on real events.