"Death is not sad; it is an expectation that we will all fulfill... Everything is connected, and you play an important role." 

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.

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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.

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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.