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She Who Commands: Where the Deep Begins: Book One
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She has spent twenty-seven years managing what she is. In Brooklyn, behind a farmers market booth and a hospital badge, Tamdra Bell keeps every current inside her contained. Water. Sky. Earth. Three bloodlines. One regulator she never takes off.
Then a young woman surfaces in a hospital corridor and everything Tamdra has been containing begins to move.
The Rooted are an ancient people who command the elements and they are disappearing. Not from the world, but from each other. Scattered. Unanchored. Found too late or not at all. Tamdra has been hiding among them without knowing it. Now she is being asked to find them before something older and hungrier than any of them does first.
But the woman sent to map her is watching everything. And the elder who knows the truth about Tamdra's mother has been holding it for forty years.
A debut fantasy series rooted in Black and brown women's power, ancient frequency, and the cost of finally becoming everything you are. Where the Deep Begins is the first book in the She Who Commands trilogy.
She Who Commands SeriesBook One: Where the Deep Begins
Book Two: What She Carries - Coming Soon
Book Three: She Who Remains - Coming Soon Remember Her Publishing
Built on purpose. Written with intention.
www.kendratamika.com
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