Daughters of the Wind
A Mythic Fantasy
Arriving December 2026!
Book club favorite and acclaimed author of No Better Time and The Secret Women makes her first foray into the mythical fantasy genre with this epic tale of legacy, power, sacrifice, and family bonds that is a call to action wrapped in elemental magic.
Aeola St. James is no ordinary CEO. While navigating boardroom politics and the chaos of motherhood, she harbors a secret: she is Keeper of the Winds, an elemental being who can read the landscape and harness the wind. The planet is warming faster than it should and Aeola senses catastrophe.
To ward off disaster, Aeola must gather “Daughters of the Wind” from every epoch and corner of the globe, including her own daughters whom she has hidden for their protection: Buran, mammoth hunter in Ice Age North America, Burga, her Eurasian counterpart, a skilled falconer, Siree, midwife to the Kushite royal house, Zonda of the Cloud People, masters of the Andean peaks, and Mistral, mercurial and fierce, survivor of a medieval witch hunt.
Author Sheila Williams
Named one of Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2022 Women Who Mean Business
Sheila Williams was born in Columbus, Ohio in a year that’s none of your business.
She is a reformed corporate borg (she drank the Kool-Aid but it made her sick), loves to read, listen to music (most kinds), travel and eat popcorn, preferably served dripping with butter. Sheila lives in northern Kentucky.
Sheila is the author of Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, On the Right Side of a Dream, The Shade of My Own Tree, Girls Most Likely, The Secret Women, Things Past Telling and No Better Time. She is a contributor to an anthology entitled A Letter For My Mother, compiled and edited by her friend, writer Nina Foxx.
Juanita, a Netflix Film
Juanita, a Netflix film, is based on Sheila Williams’ book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof.
Fierce the Opera
Made its Iowa premiere April 2024!
The Cincinnati Opera’s world premiere of Fierce was hailed as “a one-act operatic gem” (All About the Arts).