The Gilded Mirage

<p><strong>The Gilded Mirage</strong></p><p>Dr. Mara Ellin a disgraced archaeologist receives a final bloody package from her vanished mentor: a humming stone fragment and a map to a lost city buried beneath the Saharan sands. It is a discovery that could redeem her career but the canyon they enter is a living intelligent trap guarding ancient engineered beings known as the Gilded Ones. To survive Mara and her team of outcasts must unravel a tragic history of a fallen civilization before they become permanent additions to its ruins learning that some truths are not meant to be uncovered but protected.</p>