The Obsidian Genome: A Modern Historical & Scientific Thriller

The chamber was sealed in Roman London for a reason. So was everything inside it. When a Thames foreshore excavation uncovers a hidden vault beneath the ruins of Londinium, Dr. Layla Hassan expects pottery shards and coin hoards - the usual currency of urban archaeology. She does not expect a body. She does not expect that body to return a genetic profile that predates written history by tens of thousands of years. And she does not expect it to be, by every clinical measure her team can run, still alive. As Layla races to understand what she has found before the official channels shut her out, she uncovers the Ordo Lapis - a secret order that has guarded this discovery since before Rome ever laid a road through Britain. They believe some truths are too dangerous to survive contact with the modern world. Layla is about to test that theory. THE OBSIDIAN GENOME is Book One of The Convergence Sequence - a series in which ancient genetics, real archaeological method, and a network of guardians spanning continents keep proving that the deepest secrets in human history were never lost. They were hidden, on purpose, by people who are still watching.