The Golden Age is over. Twelve thousand, eight hundred years ago, civilisation lived in harmony from sun-struck Uruk to sea-ringed Atlantis, across the jungles of Amazonia and the Southern Lands.
In Sumer, newly crowned Nin Innana inherits a thriving kingdom and a fractured family. When word arrives that her estranged sister is rallying Neanderthal clans beyond "The Ice," Innana leads a perilous northern march, determined to stop a war before it starts.
Aryes, a scholar-explorer, uncovers a buried temple and an artefact even the scholars of Atlantis can't decipher. A royal assassination and a brazen theft thrust him into a race to uncover the item's secrets.
Two quests for truth and survival arc toward the same horizon. As oceans rise and a global cataclysm nears, alliances fray and long-sleeping powers stir.
