Before the Deep Broke
A Novel of the Nephilim, Ancient Eridu, and the Drowning World
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Historical Fiction
Before the sky split and the waters rose, the titans of the ancient world ruled in gold and blood—and secretly trembled before an unseen God. In the megalithic city of Eridu, humanity lives in a dazzling golden age of bronze, advanced geometry, and towering ziggurats. At the zenith of this civilization stands King Enkar: a nine-foot hybrid titan of Nephilim blood, born of fallen celestial watchers and mortal women, whose bare hand can stay falling tons of basalt. To the masses, Enkar is an immortal demigod. To his personal chronicler, Aras, he is the undisputed master of the earth. But behind the sealed cedar doors of the palace, the divine facade is shattering. The stars have frozen out of their circuits. Sacred fires burn a sickly, ghost-blue. The entities that once whispered conquest through the temple divination mirrors now scream in raw terror of a decree they cannot overturn. And across the western scrublands, scouts bring word of an impossible sight: an archaic desert patriarch methodically framing a gargantuan, three-tiered chest of gopher-wood—pitch-sealed, devoid of oars or sail, built far from any navigable sea. As boiling subterranean springs rupture the city's dikes and the clouds lower like a bruised fist, Aras watches his god-king unravel into desperate madness. When judgment descends from the heavens and erupts from the abyss, Aras must choose between carving the comforting lies of an empire marked for cleansing, or preserving the terrifying, unvarnished truth of a sovereign Creator who will not be defied. Before the Deep Broke is a gripping, atmospheric epic of biblical fiction and ancient dread, reimagining the events of Genesis 6 through the eyes of the doomed civilization left outside the Ark.