323 BC.

Alexander the Great is dead. His generals are tearing the empire apart.

Captain Deon has no stake in their war. He has only a desperate bargain to save his wife and daughter from the gold mines of Nubia. When the dead king's enigmatic secretary offers him a forbidden mission to steal ancient scrolls from Alexander's own sarcophagus, the reward promises everything he needs.

But the mission is a lie.

The ancient papyri do not contain what he was told. They hold a secret so dangerous that every warlord in the crumbling empire would kill to possess it — a thousand-year-old mystery with the power to reshape the world.

Hunted across a collapsing empire, Deon's only ally is a mysterious woman as lethal with a blade as she is gifted with languages. Together they must outrun assassins, outmaneuver generals, and confront an impossible choice:

Save his family, or save a million lives from annihilation.

⭐ Start the pulse-pounding Whispers of Atlantis anthology.

320 B.C., EGYPT

Ptolemy, Egypt's new satrap, is a worried man. A rebel threatens his rule, the Great River has failed to inundate, priests demand ever more coin in return for appeasing the gods, and the many warring generals in Europe and Asia cast their baleful eyes on his land.

When he receives stunning news of an army under the Great Sand Sea and might solve his desperate need for money to build and supply his own, Ptolemy thanks the many gods that have blessed him with the satrapy. But there is one problem—finding it in the vast expanse of a hostile desert requires him to seek someone he once tried to have murdered.

Now Deon, a former captain in Alexander's army, and Eurydice, a noble's polyglot daughter, are back on this tantalizing mission. And they are about to uncover something far more sinister than what they have been asked to find, because when kingdoms are at stake, loyalty, friendship, and family might mean nothing.

309 B.C. India

It has been nearly fifteen years since Alexander the Great's death, and his kingdom, from Macedonia to the borders of India, has been torn to pieces by his rapacious and ambitious generals. Seleucus Nicator reigns in Babylon, presiding over the eastern empire from Syria to the Indus River.

But no expanse of land is enough for the insatiable ego of a man who seeks glory by accomplishing what his deified King once could not—conquering the vast and wealthy India, where a powerful new emperor, guided by a cunning and brilliant mentor, poses a threat to Seleucus' ambitions.

Now, Deon, with his prodigious memory, and Eurydice, with her linguistic prowess, are back, assisting Seleucus in a diabolical new mission into the heart of the unknown. The two are about to plunge into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, where wit is as much a weapon as a sword, and where one miscalculation can lead not only to their terrible deaths but end the entire Seleucid empire.

~1550 B.C., Kingdoms of Egypt and Atalanni

In the Kingdom of Egypt across the Great Green Sea, a new young Pharaoh is taking the reigns to restore the glory of the empire by expelling the wretched Hyksos, the foreign rulers whose odious presence fouls the North. He sees the Atalanni as allies, and hopes that he can fight the Hyksos with their help.

But the gods of the Atalanni have other plans.

When the earth trembles and lava erupts from temple floors in the Atalanni capital, the powerful Oracle announces that the gods are displeased. The empire must expand its dominion, she says, or the Atalanni will face their wrath.

Sent away to fight the formidable Pharaoh, Atalanni General Teber will soon learn that nothing is as it seems as duty conflicts with morality, treachery hides behind a veil of piety, and hubris confronts cold reality.

And when the fires finally die, a stunning secret will be exposed and one great Kingdom will remain.

524 B.C., Thebes, Egypt

King of Kings, Shahanshah Cambyses, is livid. The insolent and influential priests of Ammon have refused to recognize the Persian emperor as Pharaoh. Now, a detachment of fifty-thousand men is on the march to the distant town to burn the revered temple of the Oracle and enslave its people.

As the vast column marches in the desolate landscape, leaders plot for greater things: glory and governorship, title of Pharaoh, riches, and influence.

But one man seeks something else.

Revenge.

And soon, many are about to learn that the swirling sand of the desert is not the only thing in their path to plunder and glory.

Ur, Sumer 2005 B.C.

Royal scribe Nemur is returning home after a failed mission to the governor of a neighboring province. He is looking forward to seeing his pregnant wife and resting for a few days before the weakened ruler sends him on a new arduous mission of seeking support for a kingdom under threat from aggressive roaming tribes and an increasingly hostile foreign power.

But the house is empty. His beloved wife is missing.

What begins as a desperate search for answers is about to plunge Nemur into a diabolical conspiracy, and the man who has spent his years with reed pens and clay tablets must now confront terrifying forces to not only secure justice for his wife but also to save his own life and the entire kingdom.

Circa 1336 B.C., Egypt

Pharaoh Akhenaten is dying. His kingdom seethes, restless under his abandonment of the old gods. Crocodiles lurk in the murky waters of succession, hungry for the throne.

All this means little to Hapu the thief. A glorious score beckons—an unfinished tomb promising magnificent riches and a chance to forever free his family from their miserable existence. But when a botched heist leaves Hapu staring into the gaping maw of death, only a desperate gamble and an unlikely twist of fate can spare his life.

The reprieve comes at a price.

Thrust into the viper's nest of court, bewitched by a princess, and pursued by a shadowy murderer, Hapu must navigate a labyrinth of conspiracies to shield the Queen and her family from those who would see Egypt drowned in blood.

Failure means the death of all he loves and the end of the Kingdom as he knows it.

THREE NOVELS. OVER 1,100 PAGES. ONE UNBROKEN SAGA ACROSS THE ANCIENT WORLD.

Lost cities. Buried armies. Two companions who keep getting pulled back into history's deadliest moments.

THE DEON & EURYDICE SAGA brings together the three novels that open the Whispers of Atlantis anthology — newly revised and freshly polished, over 1,100 pages of thrilling, well-researched ancient historical fiction, every book re-edited end to end. Follow Captain Deon and the lethal, brilliant Eurydice across three sweeping adventures — from the death of Alexander the Great to the distant courts of India — a single, continuous arc of intrigue, conflict, and impossible choices you won't want to leave.

THE TRILOGY (read in order)

1. The Atlantis Papyrus — a quest for a thousand-year-old mystery
2. Sinister Sands — Deon and Eurydice return, to a buried army beneath the Great Sand Sea
3. Maurya — a diabolical mission into ancient India, in service of a king chasing Alexander's unfinished conquest

AND THE JOURNEY DOESN'T END HERE. These are the first three books of the Whispers of Atlantis anthology. When Deon and Eurydice's arc is complete, the world opens wide — trace the backstories that set it all in motion in The Wrath of God and The Curse of Ammon, or lose yourself in other unforgettable tales of the ancient world in The Death Pit and The Crimson Aten. Each stands entirely on its own.

Three epics. One saga. A world that keeps going. See how the books connect →

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