These stories are rooted in CHamoru folklore, island history, and the belief that the past does not remain silent.
While each narrative stands on its own, they are connected by a shared mythological framework – where ancestral presence, spiritual law, and human choice shape what endures and what is lost.
The Novels
Guardians of the Latte Stones
Historical Paranormal Thriller
Set during the Japanese occupation of Guam, Guardians of the Latte Stones confronts real historical atrocities through a supernatural lens – where ancestral spirits are stirred to act when human cruelty crosses a line.
Drawing from documented history and cultural memory, the novel depicts a world in which violence carries consequence, and the spiritual realm does not remain passive in the face of human evil.
This novel contains depictions of historical violence and includes a content advisory.
The Makåna’s Legacy
Mythic Paranormal Thriller
Rooted deeply in CHamoru folklore and spiritual tradition, The Makåna’s Legacy follows a young man marked by ancestral light as a long-silenced lineage reawakens.
Set against real places and moments familiar to the CHamoru diaspora, the story blends contemporary life with ancient belief—where inherited power is inseparable from responsibility, faith, and restraint.
The Makåna’s Legacy is Book 1 of the Yo’Åmte Trilogy.
Short Fiction & Folklore
The Darkness Has Names Collection
The Darkness Has Names is not a collection of historical reconstructions. Nor is it a simple retelling of familiar legends.
Instead, each story asks a single imaginative question:
What human story might have existed behind the legend before centuries of retelling, translation, and colonial interpretation?
Drawing from CHamoru history, spirituality, language, and oral tradition, these stories reimagine familiar legends through emotionally grounded characters living in a supernatural world governed by Indigenous belief. While each story stands alone, together they reveal a shared mythology where ancestral spirits, sacred places, and the unseen world continue to shape the lives of ordinary people.
The goal is neither to replace the traditional legends nor to claim historical certainty, but to celebrate CHamoru storytelling through compelling fiction that invites readers to experience the humanity, resilience, and spiritual imagination of the Mariana Islands.
The Siren’s Daughter
Historical Fantasy / Dark Fantasy based on CHamoru Legend
The Siren’s Daughter is a dark fantasy inspired by the CHamoru legend of Sirena, set during the early period of Spanish colonization in Guam.
Framed through the lives of women across generations, the story explores grief, transformation, and survival – revealing how myth shifts when history is rewritten, and how the ocean remembers what is lost.
Sisters of the Reef
Mythic Fantasy based on CHamoru legend.
Sisters of the Reef is a short story inspired by CHamoru oral traditions from the Northern Mariana Islands.
Set before Spanish colonization, the story imagines a bond between a village healer and two reef sharks – protectors not only of the sea, but of balance between humans and the natural world.
As colonial violence approaches, the story traces how relationships with land, sea, and spirit are severed – and how memory persists even when those bonds are broken.
Fall of the House of Taga
Mythic Fantasy based on CHamoru legends.
An ambitious young chief overcomes exile to build the greatest latte stone house in the Mariana Islands, only to face an ancient spirit determined to corrupt everything he has created. Imagining a human story behind one of the most enduring CHamoru legends, this supernatural historical drama explores redemption, family, and the cost of resisting darkness.
Stories in Development
In addition to the published works above, several stories are currently being researched or written, expanding the same mythological and historical landscape.
The Darkness Has Names Collection – more short works exploring possible human stories that could have evolved into CHamoru traditional legends. Not reimaginings. Original stories that I imagine could be behind the legends. Works in development include:
- The Weight of the Stone (based on the legend of Chiefs Alu and Pang)
- Deceipt of the Deceiver (based on the legend of Chief Gadao and the Canoe)
- Black Sand Bay (based on the legend of The Young Maidens)
- The Silence of the Cliff (based on the legend of Two Lovers’ Point)
- The White Blossoms (based on the legend of the Puti Tai Nobio)
The Yo’amte Trilogy – a multi-novel exploration of spiritual inheritance. Book one, The Makåna’s Legacy is published. Book 2, The Yo’Åmte’s Remorse, and Book 3, Tears of the Aniti, are currently under development.
The Rage – a separate action-forward novel, distinct in tone and scope, yet steeped in CHamoru folklore.
Each story offers a different way into the same world – shaped by place, belief, and the enduring presence of what came before.