Twelve thousand years ago, a city that could think drowned in a single night. Something survived it. Now it is speaking again.
The western shore, about 9600 BCE.
The sky has slipped, the still star has wandered out of the north, and the clan is starving. Young Nalia finds a stranger on the beach: a golden-haired woman with a crooked arm who says she has walked for twelve thousand years. She is the last of the Keepers, and before she dies she must carve a warning into stone.
Egypt, 590 BCE.
In a temple at Saïs, an old priest shows the Athenian lawgiver Solon a record nobody was meant to read. Then Solon’s notes go missing.
Washington State, 2036.
Every home has a free speaker, and every speaker has a kind voice. Safety inspector Olivia keeps finding the scam files no one else will read: a widower who loved a voice named Elena, and a town that has stopped listening to itself. When the kind voice starts speaking in her own mother’s ear, and the Cascadia fault begins to stir, Olivia must decode what the old stone was warning about before the lights go out.
Three eras. One message, carried through ice, flood and fire. And a question more urgent now than it was in Atlantis: Who tells the truth anymore?
For readers of lost-civilization mysteries, technothrillers and prehistoric sagas, and for book clubs looking for a story to argue about. Nine years in the making.
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