Trinity

Cover design © Francis Cossette & Jorge Suarez 2010.

Note on the cover: this is just something I've thrown together for fun and is by no mean final or official. It is an original. The sword is an anicus. It was designed and imagined by yours truly, and finally rendered to specifications by a 3D artist.

Gabriel Clarkson's mother dedicated her existence to studying life extinguished, and the vestiges left behind by the great ancient Maya. As he followed her through the forests and temples of Guatemala as a child, he realized his passion lay in preserving life. When leukemia takes his little brother away from him twenty years later, he becomes one with his obsession: to prevent this from happening again.

Five years of research in his Vermont lab leads to a breakthrough, but at a price too high. Upon stumbling on the body of his ex-fiancée in his plundered lab, he realizes the rationality he sought through science all his life, the science he knew and worshiped, could never have prepared him for the truth. When his new colleague reveals her true identity, everything he knows is shattered: the civilization humanity thought to be extinct for 1,200 years still lives.

The ancient Maya survived the sands of time.

After a cataclysm of unknown origin wiped out their race, the few survivors set off to rebuild their society in secret. Fear of a past they don't understand has splintered the great civilization in two fundamentally opposed clans, and Gabriel will find himself in the middle of a conflict his research might forever change. One side offers him shelter and protection, the other will stop at nothing to find the answers they've sought for over a millennium. The virus he's created might elucidate their near extinction, but in the wrong hands, it could forge a dark future. With the fate of two people now resting upon him, he'll be forced to push through his limits, for his sake and those he loves.

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