Josette's Awakening of the White Calf: Part I Hardcover – December 7, 2025

In the sun-drenched south of France lies the quiet town of Vergèze—a place of olive groves, humming insects, and ancient secrets hidden just beneath the ordinary. Most people walk its narrow streets unaware of the strange vibrations in the air or the whispers tucked between heartbeats. But nine-year-old Josette is not most people.Awkward, hypersensitive, and wonderfully peculiar, Josette feels life more intensely than the world ever intended. Moods crash into her like storms. Trees greet her as old friends. Bees don’t just buzz around her—they advise her. And though the adults in her life think she is merely distracted, Josette carries an ancient frequency within her, a vibration older than continents, marking her as something rare:A bridge between worlds.A dream-walker.A child of prophecy—the White Calf reborn.But power this old never awakens without consequence. Shadows have been following Josette long before she knew to fear them—draining her dreams, stirring terror, and twisting her emotions into knots she cannot name. Darkness recognizes her before she recognizes herself.Fortunately, she is not alone.Her loyal animal companions, her two chaotic cousins Nicolas and Maxime, and a mysterious presence in her dreams stand beside her. The trees strengthen her. The elements answer her. And in hidden realms layered over this world like shimmering lace, she trains without ever remembering.Still, Josette’s greatest battle is not with spirits, shadows, or cosmic hunters.It is with the wound in her heart—an unexplained hatred for the mother she cannot face, a weight she does not understand, and the belief that she is too small, too strange, too broken to be chosen for anything at all.But destiny disagrees.And the universe has already begun to tremble.Josette’s Awakening of the White Calf is a luminous coming-of-age fantasy about an overlooked girl learning that her sensitivity is not a curse—it is her superpower. A tale woven from mysticism, humor, childhood chaos, and ancient prophecy, it follows the rise of a heroine who must learn to love herself before she can save two worlds.This is the story of the child the universe watched.Long before she learned to watch it back.And it all begins beneath an olive tree in Vergèze, where a little girl listens to the bees—and where the world gathers its breath, waiting. Read more