On Earth's Altar
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The discovery of a prehistoric body sets in motion a cataclysmic chain of events long foretold by ancient prophecy . . . .
Still grieving his mother's death, Seattle bachelor Peter Barshman receives a cryptic message from his estranged father. As he ponders its meaning, he is approached by Nechama Davila, a young Israeli archaeologist who believes Peter and his father harbor information about a stolen artifact of immense importance. But she's not the only one zeroing in on Peter. When assassins strike, the two of them are thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse where the only hope for survival is finding the artifact before the killers find them.
Tinkering away in his basement laboratory, former CDC virologist R. K. Brisling receives an urgent phone call. The vice president of the United States is dead, and Congress wants to know why. Dragged out of semi-retirement to investigate, Brisling returns to the CDC in Atlanta, where he confronts his tragic past and a looming viral outbreak beyond his wildest fears. When Brisling traces the outbreak to its unlikely source, he uncovers an astonishing link between the virus, the artifact and the ancient prophecy--a link that could shape the future of human civilization.
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"It says here you were born in 1776?" Larry Daley read the old brown sheet of paper in front of him. Rowena just smiled, but her eyes said more. "That's right." ___ Born in a storm, Rowena was found by a man of humility and kindness that no one could ask for - at times of inhumane acts and discrimination. But when a group of cultists demand an ancient gold coin claimed by her, she is buried under the rubble of temple. However, it's only a few days later when she wakes up...buried alive with a tombstone next to a grave. Rowena Elizabeth Clarke wanders for the next two hundred and thirty years, never staying in the same place for more than thirty years. But as the years pass, and the world changes around her, she begins to struggle to blend into the people that were carved by history. Torn by disasters, war and celebration: she would walk the earth as a ghost. Until one night in the New York Museum of Natural History, where she encounters the magical tablet once more...where it would bring life to the rest of history in front of her and the new night guard. But with a tablet: comes a king; and Rowena will meet an old soul once more, someone she has met many decades before. ____ • Follows through NATM 1 & 2 and the beginning of NATM 3 • Canon Divergence partway through NATM 3 • Warnings of Violence, Major/Minor Deaths and lots of Angst. • No Mummies, Artefacts or Capuchins were damaged in the making of this story. #blm #womenofhistory #6 in fanfiction (14/11/2021) #1 in history (15/11/2021) #1 in ramimalek (29/04/2022)
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