Terri, a Midwestern music lover from the Detroit suburbs, follows her musician boyfriend to Belize for a funeral and into a world where Garifuna drums, Mayan cosmology, and ancestral traditions shape daily life. When Terri faces a near-death experience, a mysterious healer saves her using rituals that defy everything Terri thought she knew. As she fights to save her marriage and hold her family together, Christian values, Daoist wisdom, and spiritual practices begin illuminating truths she’s been avoiding—including her own role in the unraveling.

When her son vanishes, Terri, a woman with more bravado than self-esteem, must navigate betrayal, sacrifice, and deadly secrets—or lose her child to forces she doesn’t understand.

To find him, she must track her son through folklore and mysterious cenotes, guided by music that connects past wounds to future healing. In a journey where maternal love becomes the most dangerous magic, she discovers a powerful truth: Pain can become her greatest teacher.

From Los Angeles to Belize’s sacred caves, Song of Hummingbird Highway explores how love, loss, and a mother’s fierce resolve converge into a story as intricate and luminous as the music that inspired it.

K. M. Cookie is a believer in the truth of storytelling. She holds a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies—integrating writing, leadership, and business—and a UCLA certificate in creative writing. A certified True Colors communication facilitator and growth-mindset expert, her work has appeared in Creative Nursing and Career Education Review, and she has spoken at national conferences on leadership, resilience, and empowerment. When not telling stories or leading workshops, Cookie curates playlists, collects dream catchers, and takes garden walks with her husband and their beloved rescue pit bull. Accompanied by the Chuck Taylor sparkle shoes that mirror her journey in writing, coaching, or leadership development, she is driven by a single guiding question: “Are you creating?”