Touching Yesterday : a Supernatural Story of Truth and Fate

On the night of her 52nd birthday, Karachai “Kai” Ivy-Morgan’s world still feels familiar. She is a married mother of two grown sons, a respected therapist, a woman who has spent a lifetime carrying everyone else’s weight with grace, humor, and a quiet resilience that makes people assume she will always be okay.But life has a way of shifting beneath your feet long before the ground actually cracks.After an unexpected tragedy shatters the life she knew, Kai is plunged into a grief so heavy it bends the edges of time itself. Her marriage strains. Her spirit fractures. Her days blur into a silence she can’t escape. And the woman who once guided others through their darkest moments can no longer find her way out of her own.Desperate for solace, Kai makes a bold decision: a 30-day grief retreat in Ghana—far from home, far from her memories, far from everything she can’t bear to hold. What she expects is healing. What she receives is something deeper, stranger, and far more powerful than prayer or therapy.Under the guidance of Ama, a Sankofa elder with eyes that seem to remember more than they reveal, Kai is ushered into a ritual journey that does not simply ask her to look inward…but to look backward.Suddenly Kai begins experiencing vivid, visceral “pulls”—moments where the line between memory, emotion, and time blur. Moments where she sees her younger self with clarity so sharp it steals her breath. Moments that feel less like dreams and more like warnings. More like invitations. More like truth demanding to be witnessed.As these experiences intensify, Kai is forced to confront questions she spent decades running from:What would you change if you were given the chance?What truth would you face if the universe refused to let you hide?Who would you choose if destiny allowed you to choose again?And most importantly—What does healing really cost?Touching Yesterday is a sweeping, emotional, supernatural story about a woman who is forced to walk through the past in order to reclaim her future. It blends women’s fiction, metaphysical sci-fi, ancestral wisdom, and slow-burn romantic tension into a narrative that is both deeply human and hauntingly otherworldly.Perfect for readers of Kindred, The Water Dancer, and Black Cake, this novel explores the complexities of love, the weight of unspoken truths, the bonds that shape us, and the extraordinary ways grief can alter the fabric of time.As Kai journeys through timelines, memories, and the echoes of the life she once lived, she must decide whether the truth will break her…or set her free.A story about motherhood, marriage, identity, destiny, and the courage it takes to rewrite a life—Touching Yesterday is for every woman who has ever wished she could go back… and every woman brave enough to move forward.