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We all need agency to feel the power and joy of acting in the face of challenge and opportunity. But we also need humility and restraint to ensure that we guard against hubris and harm. We need trusted and testable navigation tools to give us confidence in our creative power and cautiousness in carrying out our work. Instead of looking for answers, what we are all seeking are tools for navigating the increasingly complex, noisy, conflicted culture that we inhabit. A personal manifesto is one of those tools.

Humans have always been creative hustlers—problem solvers who seek to live beyond the limits suggested by society. Yet we live in a world where the place you were born, the amount of money you have, and the level of melanin in your skin indicate the precise path you are expected to follow. Too many of us silence our creativity and let our hustle calcify as we settle for the roles assigned to us.

Dianna Montague finds herself in a deep, sinking battle with depression due to her lack of knowledge and lack of self-acceptance of her identity. Born and raised by a half Nagalian mother, Dianna only knows one way to be herself, and that is to hate who she is...until she meets Drax Ashton, an accomplished, affluent, and powerful heir to Nagalian aristocracy. He shows her an entirely new world of a thriving underground subculture that takes Dianna out of her comfort zone and forces her to face and overcome her personal struggles.