The Golden Ellipse — ✓ GET IT - Kirkus Reviews
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Book One in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE draws parallels between the Great Pyramid’s mysterious origin and Fermi’s paradox in an epoch-spanning story rich in history and paranormal intrigue with an eclectic cast of dimensional characters, gritty dialogue, dark humor, and a clandestine organization known as The Powers That Be (PTB), chartered to foster humankind’s destiny in a crowded universe.
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In a domed granite chamber deep beneath the Giza Plateau, a proto-pyramidical beacon pulses a stern message into the cosmos for millennia to leave Earth alone as a dark spectral force conspires to terminate the beacon’s warning by removing its infinite power, the golden ellipse.
In 1944, a Nazi spy unwittingly loots the enigmatic gold relic. In the fog of world war, it falls into the hands of a brash American fighter pilot who buries the prized contraband in the Libyan desert before his paranormal demise on a daring air raid in the south of France.
A century later, in the AI-driven world of 2044 replete with human replicants and alien tech, intrepid honeymooners Rachel and Owen Haig—fresh off a space tourism touchdown in France—are hijacked by Rachel’s ghostly ancestor onto a heart-pounding odyssey to locate the legendary golden ellipse and restart the beacon’s signal before time runs out.
The treacherous quest culminates in a harrowing pitch-black descent beneath the Giza Plateau illuminated by Rachel’s transformational Blue Spark fate as reptilian invaders unleashed by the beacon’s century of silence tear open Earth’s skies.
It’s just the fate of the world. No pressure.
The Odyssey Begins.
No Pressure.
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“A flighty, serio-comic excavation of SF tropes and doomsday conspiracies.
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Book Two in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE LOST SHIP immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE, twisting and turning from cloak-and-dagger intrigue to the heart of the Amazon, where a supernatural revelation illuminates humankind’s transformative destiny in a cerulean glow.
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Vengeful Gray aliens abandon a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure and time travel to present-day Earth, seeking a doomsday weapon left behind on a shipwreck lost in what is now the Amazon. Lurking in high Earth orbit, the predatory race hijacks a lunar-bound medevac, imprisoning The Powers That Be (PTB) crew in a mind-bending, torturous nightmare.
Rachel and Owen Haig convalesce in a decimated Cairo hospital, contending with unwanted notoriety following their heroic exploits and an offer from the PTB.
Griffin Pike, a megalomaniacal tech mogul, projects international rage onto the PTB with his ancestor’s antique journal containing cryptic clues to a lost ship as his failsafe option.
Artemus Pennywell, the ageless PTB CEO, parries post-invasion gut punches, overseeing relief efforts alongside his quintessential replicant valet and fixer, Andrew. With cutthroat mercenaries and the ruthless Grays searching for the lost ship, he dispatches eccentric scientist Richard King and new PTB agents Rachel and Owen to the Amazon in a race to secure the prehistoric alien payload. Fates collide, trekking a dense jungle teeming with incredible dangers to a primeval rift guarded for centuries by a ghostly cannibal tribe.
The perilous race to find a doomsday device is on. And the clock is ticking.
The Saga Continues
and the Clock is Ticking.
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“... a character quips, “We just went from Star Wars to Indiana Jones in a heartbeat,” and this description aptly summarizes what readers can expect as they make their way through this adventure tale.”
Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a thought-provoking, action-packed vision of a dystopian future world with humankind on a razor’s edge between science and morality, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear, evolution and extinction.
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A supernatural visitor entrusts an enigmatic cubed artifact with maverick archeologist Professor Ian Dury. Five years later, legendary robotics pioneer Mitsuo Kobayashi appropriates the top-secret cube, projecting a young woman’s body and soul into sixteen sister replicants before the catastrophic consequences of playing God lay bare his hubris.
Rachel and Owen Haig raise their precocious daughter, Hannah, out of the public eye and away from The Powers That Be (PTB) until events spiral their extraordinary lives asunder.
With a vicelike grip on the PTB, a corrupted Andrew sabotages a quasi-utopian new world order, precipitating the return of an advanced alien hybrid prehuman civilization.
25-year-old Hannah Haig leads a solitary life in 2070 as a drone tech aboard Thundercorp No. 5 when terrorists destroy the moon-like orbiting warehouse. A month later, estranged from her family and stricken with survivor’s guilt, Hannah’s Blue Spark inheritance manifests, leading to a transformative sacrifice that seals humankind’s destiny at the end of a celestial path.
On a future Earth reshaped by eons of cataclysmic upheavals, something stirs within the cube long since buried under the sands of time.
Sometimes, history repeats.
The Final Chapter of
Humanity’s Place in a
Crowded Universe.
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“A must read for those that enjoy this genre.
Keeps you looking for what is next to come.”