The parchment waited twelve thousand years to be read...it was waiting for her.
When archaeologist Liza Downey decodes a map to eight buried sarcophagi - each holding a being the ancient world called a god - she wakes Antonius, a warrior who sacrificed everything to outlive the apocalypse.
But not every sarcophagus holds an ally. Some hold wolves.
As Liza's twelve-year-old son cracks encodings no scholar can touch, a killer hides and a trusted friend reports to someone who shouldn't exist. And behind it all, an intelligence that may have been calculating for twelve thousand years is quietly moving its pieces across a board no one else can see.
The Ancients: Discovery is the explosive first book in an epic saga of buried gods, a story that asks: what if your greatest discovery was someone else's plan?