A little about me… I cut my teeth writing copy for Sephora, learned Arabic in Egypt, and worked in diplomacy in Saudi Arabia. In my side-hustle teaching fitness classes, I’ve watched hundreds of women struggle to accept their bodies (my stories are for them). Now, in Los Angeles, I write for a non-profit serving people with disabilities. At home, I am teaching my three bright-eyed children how to live in our world as fully-human beings.

This water nymph’s story was buried because it threatened the gods. Distilled over millennia, Io’s story is an antidote for women poisoned by the lie that they are not enough.

• Historical fantasy (99k)

• Egyptian and Greek mythology meet in this subversive adventure