Denise Soler Cox was on a conference call when she felt the blood. She speed-walked to the bathroom, miscarrying her baby into a DIY pad she’d rigged together because God forbid she admit that she needed to go home. On her knees scrubbing blood from the grout with wet paper towels, she wanted to scream. But even then, she was worried that someone might hear.

This is what it looks like when the rules run your life, at work, in your body, your marriage, and at your mother’s kitchen table. In the silence you kept the night something unfathomable happened and no one asked if you were ok.

For nearly a decade, brilliant women line up after her keynotes to confess secrets they’d never told anyone. Women who stayed silent to keep the peace, who felt guilty for wanting more, who believed that choosing themselves meant abandoning their families.

Through raw storytelling, a sharp, unapologetic sense of humor, and wisdom she earned the hard way, Denise exposes the ten cultural taboos keeping Latina leaders silent and shows us, finally, how to stop living by rules we never chose. How to find your public voice, how to shed a survivor mentality, how to choose your own healing without apology.

A leadership book that proves you can honor your cultura and take up every inch of space you deserve.

In the serene Colorado countryside, an otherworldly saga unfolds, entwining a brave family and their enigmatic war-torn neighbor. A young girl’s extraordinary insight becomes a beacon against a rising darkness as malevolent forces encroach. A pastor with celestial origins orchestrates a threat to unity, while a war veteran contends with a mysterious curse. This tale of supernatural resilience and human courage explores the fragile juncture between myth and reality, where the fate of the Earth hinges on confronting ancestral secrets. Embark on a journey where destiny and redemption collide, testing the human spirit’s power to rewrite the stars amidst cosmic enigmas.

Author Lydia Ortiz Avant, was born to a family of storytellers and story writers in Southern Colorado. Lydia is the second oldest of seven siblings. She was raised by her grandparents in the countryside along the mighty Rio Grande. The Malevolent Nephilim is inspired by a true tragic event that happened in the middle 1950’s.

Writing the first book of The Malevolent Nephilim trilogy, became her path to understanding and closure, shaping worlds where darkness lurks, hope flickers, and unseen forces pull at every life.

After the passing of her beloved husband, Lydia moved from Ken Caryl, Colorado, to Centennial, Colorado, to her forever home. Lydia’s late husband, Leonard Avant is her coauthor of the sequel in the Malevolent Nephilim trilogy. Lydia continues to finish writing the last book to the trilogy, where the shadows of experience fuels the stories she tells.

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