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The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series) is Here!

I’m very happy to share with you that Book 2 of the Enanika Series is now available!

Six years ago, Anu left Milkwood for the three-day Sirius alignment and didn’t come back. Enlan didn’t go with her. He chose to stay. By the time Anu returns to Earth, she has been trained as a Storyteller, someone who doesn’t just connect worlds but carries their inner life, their dreams, their felt truth, the way a crystal holds light. Meanwhile, Enlan has changed too. Will they still connect? And if so, in what way?

A weekly train trip into the city. A free trial dance class. An unearthly green stone left on a spare-room shelf. The sacred in this book shows up in the small things. It also shows up at world-scale: years that don’t match, a seven-night ceremony of monumental importance, a vision of our far future. The grand and the grounded sit side by side because both matter. Whether you choose to stay present with someone across a table or across a galaxy, it’s the same choice — asked at a different scale.

The Storytellers is a deeply human and mystical novel about what shapes us, what we carry, and the lives we choose.

Enanika Series: Combined Volume

This combined volume includes the first two books in the Enanika Series: Enanika and The Storytellers.

The Enanika Series is visionary fiction exploring consciousness, love, interworld contact, and the meeting point between realities. The series currently includes two books, Enanika and The Storytellers, with more books to come.

“The Enanika Series: Combined Volume brings together two richly imagined works of visionary fiction in a seamless exploration of consciousness, love, interworld contact, and human transformation. Donna Goddard balances intimate relationships with expansive metaphysical ideas, creating a thoughtful and distinctive series that moves confidently between the personal and the cosmic.”

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The Storytellers: Galactic Neighbourhood

I have been making progress on The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series). Here is part of Chapter 10.

Chapter 10: Our Local Stellar Neighbourhood

The bookshop heater clicked every few minutes and the old wall clock near the philosophy shelves announced the passing of time. When the Reading Rooms breathed quietly, so did Anu. And so did Michael. 

Anu was shelving a box of donated books and a folded paper slipped from between the pages of an astronomy atlas. It fluttered to the floor like a winged prayer. She picked it up. It was a map of stars. 

Sol (Earth’s sun) lay at the centre, surrounded by star systems within 13 light-years. It wasn’t all the star systems within that range. Only some of them, making it… selective. All the more interesting.

Anu carried the map to the front counter. Michael looked up from balancing the previous month’s accounts.

“What have you found?”

She put the map down and said, “Our local stellar neighbourhood.”

Michael adjusted his glasses and studied the names:

Proxima Centauri. Alpha Centauri. Barnard’s Star. Wolf 359. Luyten 726-8. Sirius. Ross 154. Ross 248. Epsilon Eridani. 61 Cygni. Epsilon Indi. Procyon A. Tau Ceti. Kruger 60.

“I thought there were more stars than this within 13 light-years of us,” he said.

“There are.”

“Then why these?”

“These are the ones that have particular relevance to Earth,” explained Anu…

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The Missing Years

Enlan was angry and hurt that Anu stayed away for six years. We find out why.

Chapter 3: New Anu

In Enanika:

Six years ago, after the three-day Sirius alignment, Anu had been invited by Nadhir to begin storyteller training.

Earth was still vivid inside her. Milkwood, the winter solstice dark, the sound of Fat Cow Creek below the falls, and Enlan’s torchlight falling across the path ahead of her as he said, “Goodbye, my love.” 

She felt the pull of it clearly. She felt, just as clearly, what Nadhir was offering. She held them both, and then she turned towards Enanika, and the training began.

Contact callers open the bridge between worlds. They are the first point of call. They help worlds attune to frequencies not yet known to them. It is essential work, foundational work, the kind of work that has to happen before anything else can.

Storytellers come after. Their work is different. Whereas contact callers connect worlds, storytellers venture into their interior, into the dreams they dream about themselves, into the patterns they return to again and again without knowing why. Storytellers learn to feel worlds from the inside. They know that stories are not simply entertainment, nor history, nor even mythology, though they wear those forms. 

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Back in Town

I hope you enjoyed Enanika (Book 1 of the Enanika Series). I have now begun writing Book 2.

A lot has happened in the space between Books 1 and 2. For one thing… six years. Here is Chapter 1.

Chapter 1: Dynamic Dancing

Six years later:

Winter moved sharply through the city streets, pushing cold wind between buildings and along tram tracks. People walked quickly, shoulders raised against it, scarves pulled close, hands wrapped around takeaway coffees. 

Anu walked much more slowly, her attention moving from one thing to another, trying to orient herself to a world she had not seen for six years, and even then had not been at ease with.

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Enanika is Here!

Enanika: Visionary Fiction is now available.

It’s a personal and expansive story, and I’m so happy to share with you the first book in the Enanika Series — a new series, a new world.

On the peaceful, light-filled planet of Enanika, where life is guided by harmony, energy, and telepathy, Anu prepares for her first solo mission as a contact caller. Her destination is Earth — dense, troubled, beautiful, and poised for change.

In the rural town of Milkwood, she meets Enlan, another being from her world. But their paths unfold very differently. Anu remains aware of who she is and why she’s here, while Enlan becomes immersed in the human experience, gradually losing his connection to where he came from.

Enanika is not just a story about people, but about worlds… about who we are, and who we believe ourselves to be.

Available as an ebook, paperback, and audiobook (audiobook is currently available in the U.S. only).

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Enanika: Close Call

When Anu woke, she stood and moved with ease. Her body, she realised, was unnoticeable — as young bodies generally are.

After several weeks of being sixty-six-year-old Anna, she had returned to thirty-three-year-old Anu during the night.

Which was just as well, because she and Enlan had decided to go back to Fat Cow Falls that day. Enlan had been feeling very Earthbound and hoped he could connect with Enanika again in the pool. The cliff would be far easier for Anu to navigate than Anna.

“Have you lost something?” Enlan asked when they met at the entrance to the falls.

Anu frowned slightly and tilted her head.

“No. I don’t think so.”

He smiled, waiting. “A few years, maybe.”

She laughed. “Oh. Yes. That. It happened overnight.”