Caryn M. McGill

Caryn McGill has immersed herself in a lifelong study of religion, astrology, reincarnation, and past-life regressions. This otherworldly journey coupled with her decades spent teaching science produced her debut novel, THE WIVES OF LUCIFER, a trilogy. She also writes contemporary romance. REGRETS released last year. She has returned to her paranormal fascination with her new release HIS DAUGHTER, coming 9/7/2026.

She also writes romantic suspense under the name Kendra Greenwood. Warning: these are ADULT romances.

If God's daughter walked among us today, what would be the first thing that would break her heart​? And what would make her believe humanity is still worth saving? 

In the book she becomes a pediatric oncologist so saving children is her mission. However, this is before she knows who she is. When she learns her identity, she has a more global desire, which is to remove all hate in the world and that becomes her first initiative with the help of her father and brother. If she walked the earth today, I think starving children would be the first thing that would break her heart. The survival of humans rests in the hands of its children. She knows that infants come into the world with a foundational, innate moral core and research shows that babies prefer helpful individuals over harmful ones and display signs of empathy, fairness and altruism before their first birthday. Her faith lies there, in the fundamental goodness in humans at birth. 

Most stories ask whether humans deserve forgiveness. Your book asks something even riskier: What if heaven itself had to earn our trust? What made you want to explore that question?

I believe there is no heaven and that souls walk the earth to be near those they love and to find a path to reincarnation. There is something called a soul pod which is a close group of souls—a family of sorts—who share a similar energy frequency. People in a soul pod are believed to reincarnate together across different lifetimes, taking on roles as friends, families,  or partners to help each other learn and grow. Thus, it’s individuals who look for, and must earn, forgiveness from each other, not heaven. In my book, God makes it very clear that humans ‘are on their own’ and they only need to be responsible to each other, not to him, or heaven.

You've spent years studying religion, reincarnation, astrology, and science. Was there one belief you held that this novel forced you to question?

No. This is my life philosophy after years of studying religion, reincarnation, astrology and science, and observing society. People are often their own worst enemies. They waste hours being angry and trying to change things that are out of their control, and their subsequent anger and frustration only manifests negative energy. The complete opposite of our purpose on this earth. 

God's daughter has extraordinary power, yet much of her struggle is internal. Do you think our greatest battles are ever really with other people​ or are they always with ourselves?

Always with ourselves. We have no control over others and any attempt to assert control is doomed to fail. Sure, we can guide children by ‘telling’ them how to act but the true guidance comes by example. Being kind, generous, and forgiving is how children become humans worth the life they’ve been given. The question is: How many lives must a human live to attain these virtues? (Which is the theme I explore in my next book: Indigo Child.)

If readers completely misunderstood one thing about His Daughter, what would you hope they didn't miss?

That anger and hate are the worst human traits. If anger is given a life, it can take a life. 

Imagine someone who has completely lost their faith​ not necessarily in religion, but in people. What conversation do you hope this book starts for them?

To believe in yourself. Your own power. Never blame someone for your failures, or mistakes, and never give credit to someone for your achievements, or successes. As God tells us in my book, he’s not influencing anybody. Humans are on their own.

Your protagonist refuses to simply follow the plan she was given. Do you think questioning authority is sometimes a sacred act?

Yes. We all have free will and must follow our moral compass. Always question authority, providing you’ve done your homework. Know what you’re questioning and be respectful and base your augments on fact, not emotion. 

After writing this story, has your own definition of heaven changed?

I’ve never believed in the concept of heaven, or hell, at least not since I was a child. When I was five my little brother died at the tender age of three. I had been sent to my aunt’s house and when I came home, he was gone. My mother said he was too sick and we couldn’t take care of him anymore, so God took him. I was furious and yelled, “I would have taken care of him!” then locked myself in the bathroom. 

The fear of God haunted me until I was a teen. Then I took my first science class and learned about The Big Bang Theory, and I contemplated the idea that perhaps God didn’t exist. And for the first time in my young life, I was unafraid. The next year I took biology and learned about evolution and that people die from sickness, random accidents, and just bad luck. So maybe God wasn’t in control of us. My view of the world completely changed, and I told my mother that I no longer believed in God and I was no longer a Catholic. To her credit she said, ‘Oh, okay’. 

You t​aught science but write about the metaphysical. Have you discovered that science and spirituality are asking the same questions from different directions?

I was a confirmed atheist until my mid-twenties, and that there was nothing after death. You just ceased to exist. Then my mother met a woman who was psychic and an astrologer. By then, my mother had embraced much of my thinking, and she decided to study astrology with this woman and invited me to join. I did, and as a firm believer of the scientific tenet that energy can’t be created or destroyed, I wondered what happened to our energy after death. Did it stay cohesive or did it dissipate? If it was cohesive could that be considered a soul? If so, where did these souls go?

If God finished reading His Daughter, what do you think He​ or She​ would say to you?

Wow, Caryn, you really get me! Many people believe I created man (and woman) but I didn’t. I gave birth to Mother Nature, and I must say she surprised me with miracles I could never have imagined. People think Mother Nature should bow down to me but it’s the opposite. She created a beautiful paradise which humans are doing their best to destroy. Most people think I have a plan. I don’t. Most people think I work in mysterious ways. I don’t. Most people think I’m an old, bearded guy who lives in the sky. I’m not. Ignoble people have been doing bad things in my name forever. And don’t get me started on religion.. I never asked, nor wanted, humans to worship me. I liked it better when they venerated the sun or the moon, or any aspect of Mother Nature. She’s more of a god than I’ll ever be. I find atheism to be less of an insult than religion. And don’t get me started on war. For eons, people have been killing each other in the name of religion. Warring over whose god is the real god and which religion worships me the right way. But I have no religion. I don’t want humans to worship me. I just want to be left alone.

You've spent a lifetime studying what happens after we die. After writing His Daughter, what do you think we're supposed to be doing while we're alive?

Our main purpose is spiritual growth. We live many lives in different bodies to learn lessons, fix past mistakes, and clean our karma. This long journey helps the soul mature until it reaches a state of total peace or freedom.

But, then what? Maybe our energy finally dissipates and becomes part of something bigger. It is said that the energy and atoms in our bodies were once part of a star. So maybe we’re finally set free. We’re not leaving, we’re just going home. I hope I get to pick my star!

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