The Golden Ellipse

<h4 class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book One in </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Powers That Be</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> trilogy </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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.</span></h4><p class=ql-align-center>* * *</p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's just the fate of the world. No pressure.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center>* * *</p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Includes an excerpt from </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>THE LOST SHIP</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>The Powers That Be | Book Two</span></p>