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Atrahasis: The Gate - Book One
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The day she buried her father, Nadia Esposito discovered she could not weep - and that frightened her more than the death itself.
A restorer of ancient books, trained to tell the true from the false with her fingertips, she comes home to Naples to empty a dead man's rooms. What she finds instead is a cold disc of dark metal, a number engraved on its back, and a voicemail in which her father - a man who rolled his eyes at the word soul - says he is no longer afraid to die. Someone sold him that peace. Someone took four million euros for it. And someone is still doing it to a hundred and forty-three others.
To avenge him, Nadia descends into the Ark: a cult that promises to wrest human memory from oblivion, run from beneath the city by a faceless god who was once a grieving engineer. She means to reach its heart and burn it down. But the Ark does not seduce its victims with lies. It seduces them with the truth - one reasonable step at a time - and every step down is a door that does not open again.
Told in two braided voices - Nadia's descent, and the confession a dead founder engraved on titanium for the heir he knew would come - The Gate is a thriller about grief, vengeance, and the oldest temptation of all: the refusal to let anything end.
Some doors you walk through. This one you sign.
Book One of the ATRAHASIS saga.
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