My BOOKS invite readers to journey inward—into the raw, unmasked terrain of women’s experiences—where modern-day heroines rise from the messy magic of life and love.
UPCOMING NOVELS
PHIA AND THE SEVEN GATES
Ascention is mandatory.
At twelve years old, Phia Jackson has learned the unspoken rules of survival in a collapsing America: stay quiet, stay compliant, stay unseen. But when her dreams begin to bleed into waking life, she uncovers a secret buried for over a century: her bloodline is bound to a forgotten Indigenous prophecy foretelling the rise of sixty-four gifted children destined to awaken human consciousness.
Phia’s visions lead her to Federika Franchi, a forgotten ancestor who vanished in 1910 Mt. Shasta under mysterious circumstances. As Phia unravels Fredi’s story, she begins to see how the wound of her disappearance has rippled through generations of women in her family—reaching all the way to herself. To break the cycle, Phia must travel back through three generations of her maternal lineage, reliving their stories to awaken the seven hidden gates of consciousness—each tied to a collective karmic wound that has bound humanity.
But awakening the past comes with a price. As timelines converge and unseen forces close in to silence her before the prophecy can unfold, Phia must choose between hiding from her power or embracing it—becoming the bridge between worlds and the key to humanity’s next evolution.
Phia and the Seven Gates opens a breathtaking new fantasy saga about the courage to face what we inherit—and the power to heal what was never ours to carry.
WILD AGAIN
Sometimes the bravest thing you can do, is want more.
After surviving an emotionally abusive marriage, Natalie Brooks has finally found peace. A single mother and interior designer on the edge of forty, she’s built a safe, comfortable life in Nashville—one that’s predictable, successful, and utterly passionless.
But on a fortieth-birthday trip to a luxury Montana ranch with her childhood best friends Natalie finds herself drawn to Micah, the magnetic ranch owner whose intensity rekindles her longing for desire—and freedom. But when his secrets come to light, Natalie leaves heartbroken, reminded why love is too dangerous to trust.
Back home, she finds unexpected comfort in Booker, her new much younger musician neighbor whose warmth and steadiness offer a gentler kind of love. Just as she begins to believe she can have both peace and passion, Micah returns with an offer that could change everything—forcing Natalie to choose between the safety she’s built and the wild, untamed life she’s always longed for.
Wild Again is a spicy, modern love story that collides passion, reinvention, and the landscapes that change us. Between Nashville’s creative fire and Montana’s untamed wilderness, one woman must choose between the comfort of who she was and the unknown wild of who she’s becoming.
about michelle
Michelle Chandler is a Nashville-based author, poet, and mother of two. At forty, she writes with the clarity of a woman who has lived through loss, reclamation and reinvention—and emerged unafraid to tell the truth.
An interior designer and creative director by trade, she brings a refined sense of atmosphere and a cinematic eye to her fiction, crafting stories that are as emotionally immersive as they are vividly built.
Grounded in her own healing journey, Michelle writes with an observant, deeply intuitive voice that speaks to women across every season of becoming. Endlessly curious about the human experience, she draws on her studies in psychology, philosophy, and mysticism to infuse her work with both depth and wonder.
Unflinching, seductive, and honest to the bone, Michelle’s writing reflects the perspective of a woman who has learned to trust herself—and invites her readers to do the same.