Symba the Little Coyote: Book 1 First Light: A Story of Freedom, Friendship, and Finding Home

The island wasn't discovered. It surfaced.When an island appears in the Atlantic where no island should exist-crowned with cities no human civilization could have built-the world sends its best to explain it. Archaeologist Marcus Asher joins the expedition expecting ruins. What he finds is something older than history... and still very much awake.On the island, every instrument gives impossible readings. Sound behaves differently. And from the towering columns above the Glass Shore, a single chord has echoed for four thousand years-a message no one has been able to translate, sent by something with the power to act that chose instead to watch.As the expedition uncovers what the island truly holds-and what has been hidden beneath it for millennia-Asher is forced to confront a question science cannot answer: what do you owe a power that chose mercy over silence?Book One of the Island of Lost Gods series, this gripping speculative thriller blends first-contact mystery, ancient-civilization wonder, and mounting cosmic dread in the tradition of Sphere and Annihilation.Four thousand years of silence are about to end.