AEON

AEON: INCARNATE

Book One of AEON

He does not know he is God. The thing hunting him does.

Eli Vale opens locks for a living. He has a wife with cold feet, an oldest friend, and an ordinary life in a rainy city -- and lately, a problem: the world is glitching. Water stops in the air. A scalding burn leaves no mark. He knows things he has no way of knowing, and where he walks, people are beginning to die.

He thinks he is losing his mind. He is doing the exact opposite.

Eli is a god who chose to forget he was one -- the mind that authored all of history, poured into a single mortal life and cut off from the reach and the memory and the way back. He came down to become something he had never been in three thousand lifetimes of watching from above: small, mortal, and real. He just cannot remember why.

And something is hunting him through the rain. It can wear anyone -- a child on a tram, an old woman with soup, the stranger beside you. It is patient. It is lethal. It is the failsafe Eli himself built, an age ago, to find and delete any god foolish enough to become small. It is not evil. It is doing its job. Its job is to kill the man he is becoming. And the closer Eli comes to remembering what he is, the faster it closes in -- and the more of the people he loves it leaves dead in the space between.

A relentless, mind-bending metaphysical thriller about identity, mortality, and what a god will pay to become a person -- AEON: Incarnate is Book One of AEON, the spin-off of The Eternal Loop.

Some doors cannot be closed from the inside.