The world has already seen the impossible.
Now it must survive it.
The battle at Atlas. The reckoning in Cairo. The moment the old powers stepped out of myth and into live broadcast. Humanity knows something ancient walks among them.
But revelation has not restored balance.
Ben Callum was meant to die. He didn’t.
Since then, systems have begun to fracture. Not collapse—fracture. Subtle shifts in probability. People changing in his wake. Death hesitating where it once ruled unquestioned.
Those who watch from the margins understand the danger. An aberration is not a hero. An anomaly is not a saviour. When something survives what should end it, the architecture of the world must respond.
Across deserts and oceans, in war rooms and hidden chambers, strategies unfold. Alliances tighten. Hunters move. Armies mobilise under banners both ancient and modern. Some seek to contain the fracture. Others want to weaponise it. A few intend to end it—permanently.
But something else is stirring.
Not divine.
Not human.
Not patient.
As the pressure builds, revelation gives way to escalation. The cost of balance rises. And the question hardens:
If the design of the world is breaking…
what was it built to contain?
The Ivory Maid is a mythic science-fiction thriller where gods walk openly, power has consequence, and one man’s refusal to die begins to tilt the axis of everything.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE DEAD ARE RISING.AND THEY HAVE FOUND THEIR QUEEN.Ben Callum was meant to die.He didn't.Now the consequences of that impossible survival are spreading far beyond him.In Morocco, the woman he knew as Leila has become something else.She calls herself Lilith.And the dead answer when she speaks.From forgotten graves and ruined cities they rise to follow her-an army that does not sleep, does not fear, and grows with every mile it marches.Humanity responds with everything it has.It isn't enough.As governments mobilise and ancient powers step out from behind myth, the rules that once separated gods, mortals and death itself begin to fracture.At the centre of it all is Ben.He is no chosen one.No prophet.No saviour.He is simply the man who should be dead-and isn't.Something changes around him. Probability bends. Impossible people begin to emerge. Powers that have watched humanity for centuries turn their attention toward one ordinary man who has somehow become an error in the design.Some want to understand him.Some want to use him.Some want him erased before the fracture spreads.And somewhere beyond the armies and the burning cities, Lilith has not forgotten the man she once knew.But while gods argue over balance and humanity prepares for a war it cannot understand, Lilith keeps walking.And everywhere she walks, the dead rise.THE IVORY MAID is Book 2 of the Transit Star Continuum-a mythic science-fiction thriller of resurrection, ancient powers, impossible survival and a world discovering that its oldest legends were never legends at all. Artikel-Nr. 9781764494236
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