Veil Of Echoes: Past Present and Future

Fifty thousand years ago, on a frozen tundra at the edge of an Ice Age, two survivors, a Neanderthal hunter and a Homo sapiens wanderer, forged an unlikely pact. Their shared fire, shared grief, and a single amber bead sparked a connection neither could explain: a resonance of memory and mind that would echo across millennia. In 2100, as the Atlantic's great heat engine collapses and Britain fractures into storm-lashed refuges, fourteen-year-old Arlo inherits that ancient spark in the moment he loses the person he loves most. Grief opens a door he never knew existed. Through it pours the lives of his ancestors - hunters on drowned plains, seers on sacred islands, healers in years without a sun. Their memories become his. Their skills become his. Their unfinished stories demand to be carried forward. But the spark is more than inheritance. It is a signal. And as the planet's climate unravels, the signal finally breaches the noise. Arlo becomes the first human in fifty millennia to hear what the universe has been whispering back. Hunted by fear, rejected by a girl who refuses to let him see his daughter Arlo must choose whether to remain himself or become the bridge his lineage has been evolving toward. Sylvi his estranged daughter arrives un-announced and assumes his mantle. Becoming a respected scientist. Her research leads to breakthroughs in understanding consciousness. A pandemic and the storm of storms bears down on UK's new capital - Edinburgh, the fate of the future rests on a thread spun from the first fire to the last breath of a dying world. A sweeping, time-spanning novel of climate, kinship, and consciousness, The Amber Veils of Time weaves prehistory and near-future survival into a single, luminous story about what it means to be human - and what it might mean to become more.

Pagina's: 347, Paperback, Independently published