The Mariela Chronicles Crying Time

Crying Time is the first book in the MARIELA CHRONICLES. It follows Mariela Cantini, a ruthless visionary who builds a global cancer cure empire from a grotesque secret - tears harvested through engineered trauma. Across generations, women are controlled, isolated, and sacrificed to sustain power, profit, and myth. Lola, a sheltered teenager raised within Mariela's mansion, becomes the next vessel when her own suffering is weaponised. As secrets unravel - illegal experiments, coerced pregnancies, hidden prisoners, and a silenced past - journalists, doctors, and police close in. The novel interrogates motherhood, exploitation, faith, and capitalism, asking whether saving millions can ever justify destroying the few, and whether truth can survive absolute control.