We’re all taught to chase something.
Success. Legacy. Love. Purpose. The Emerald City of our dreams. The shining goal that promises to make everything make sense.
But here’s what I’ve learned: the Emerald City is rarely what you thought it would be. And sometimes, you get there and realize... it’s not enough. Or it never really existed the way you imagined.
Sometimes it was just a mirage, an idea sold to you as salvation. A version of happiness that looked perfect from a distance but felt hollow once you arrived. And the truth is, no destination can fix what you refuse to confront along the way.
What does matter is who you become in pursuit. The versions of yourself you outgrow. The moments you nearly quit. The people you meet. The parts of your past you finally stop carrying. The lessons. The losses. The detours that cracked something open inside you.
Dominion is about that journey. It’s not just a story of survival, it’s a story of searching. Searching for freedom, for truth, for self. For the right to decide what your life is worth when the world tries to decide for you. It’s a book about running toward something, only to realize what you were really doing was running back to yourself.
This book doesn’t promise easy answers or clean resolutions. Just characters who dare to hope. To risk. To question what they’ve been told. And in doing so, they uncover something deeper than victory. They uncover transformation.
The path is where the magic happens. Not because it’s easy. But because it changes you.
And sometimes, it saves you. Not all at once. But piece by piece. Step by step. With every challenge you didn’t think you could face, until you did.
So chase your Emerald City, if you must. But know this: who you become on the road there? That’s the real story. That’s the one worth telling.