It all began with the Wynde.
Not the wind you feel on your skin, but the one that threads through blood and memory.
Before the prophecy. Before the girl who didn’t scream. Before names were stolen and the wyrld forgot how to listen—
There was the Wynde.
This is where the story starts.
And where it refuses to end.
Finding Emory, a Young Adult Urban Fantasy novel, is a reclamation narrative told through an unapologetically authentic lens.
It’s the first book in The Cursed Ones: Veriken Chronicles, a multi-book series that weaves
supernatural politics, dark academia, Indigenous mythology, disability, and survival into a tapestry of resistance, revelation, identity, and found family.
Blending trauma realism with mythic resonance the series will connect with readers seeking stories of identity reclamation
told from deeply marginalized perspectives.
This not a story where characters just happen to be neurodivergent—
They are Veriken: an existence that is both a burden and source of immense power.
Traits aren’t metaphors for difference—they are canon.
Sensory overwhelm, masking, shutdown, and hyperfocus aren’t narrative footnotes—
they’re survival skills, and central to how the world is understood, navigated, and resisted.
The world introduces a fully original Durant taxonomy—
rooted in ancestral echoes, limenal identity, and Wyrldlum thread theory.
Core elements include:
The Realms: Six interwoven planes:
Earth (physical), Wynde (energy), the Veil (threshold),
‘Ernithe (underrealm), Aethriel (soul plane), and the Cradle of Flame (origin/rebirth).
Species Governance: The Wyndelen, or shifter-blooded beings, divided into:
Cardna (pureblood), Jaffee (cross/hybrid), and Null (non-magical human).
The Veriken: A neurodivergent-coded identity that transcends species and realm.
A distinct way of existing, surviving, and resisting.
The lore is supported by Old Wynderic (a constructed language) and a multilingual glossary drawing from Ewe, Yorùbá, Louisiana Creole, Québécois French, and Kanien’kéha, with historical grounding woven throughout.
Think Jane Eyre meets Harry Potter—only different 😊