David G. Stone
When marine archaeologist Dr. Maya Currents discovers an impossible heartbeat beneath the ocean floor, she awakens something ancient-the Leviathan, a planetary consciousness that granted sentience to the mer-people fifty thousand years ago. Now it’s awake, judging whether humanity and mer-people deserve to exist.The Leviathan offers one chance for survival: Maya must merge her consciousness with Kael, a mer-warrior, creating an unprecedented hybrid being-the Keeper Eternal. The merger will erase their individual identities forever, but it’s the only way to prove that consciousness can evolve beyond species barriers.As military forces plan catastrophic attacks and radical factions from both species threaten sabotage, Maya and Kael face an impossible choice: sacrifice everything they are to become something new, or watch both civilizations face extinction.Some bridges are built. Others are born from sacrifice.A dark fantasy epic about the ultimate cost of cooperation and what it means to transcend the self.
