Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

Songs of Yeak and Kinnari Book 1 by Som Phin is the first installment in the Khmer Legend of Love and Destiny series. At the dawn of the world, a Kinnari and a Yeak warrior joined forces to stabilize chaos and bring order. Thus, the...

"Don't whistle at night. You'll call something." Leakhana Doung, a twenty-eight-year-old dental hygienist from Fresno, often hears warnings like that from her mother, who honors her Cambodian heritage. Leakhana doesn’t take them seriously. But then she finds herself in the middle of a medieval village...

Emerald Spirit by Som Phin follows Sathea, an eighteen-year-old Berkeley student who falls asleep while playing a Cambodian-inspired fantasy game and wakes inside Srok Moreakot as the peacock spirit Peakea Thmey. The spirit realm is protected by a network of wards, but its eastern boundary...

In Som Phin’s The Naga Sisters Chronicles, six Cambodian American sisters travel to Cambodia, their late mother’s homeland. During a sunrise visit to Angkor Wat, eldest sister Chanda Seang remembers the stories their mother told about naga guardians and the princess who helped establish a...