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Echo of Atlantis: The Ūmdëdŭ Codex: : The Ūmdëdŭ Codex
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.99
Publisher: Inkquest Publishing
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 518
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For thousands of years, the descendants of Atlantis have lived among ordinary humanity - hiding their abilities, guarding ancient knowledge, and waiting. Waiting for the stars to align. Waiting for the prophecy to stir. Waiting for the four who were promised.
Hidden deep in the American Southwest, Kachina Academy for the Gifted and Talented is no ordinary school. Here, telepaths learn to navigate a world of unshielded minds. Seers wrestle with visions that blur the line between dream and destiny. Those who can move matter with thought alone train not for spectacle, but for war. And somewhere beneath the quiet discipline of lessons and traditions, something older than the academy itself is waking up.
Kyle and Kelly Brightwater have always been close - twins bound by more than blood, sharing secrets the way most siblings share rooms. But the night terrors haunting Kyle are no ordinary dreams. He sees a choice that carries the weight of worlds, and every time he reaches for the answer, it slips away like smoke. Kelly has spent her life being the steady one, the reliable one, the twin who holds things together. She's about to discover that steadiness has a price - and that some forces won't wait for her to be ready.
Isabella Greenhill has spent her entire life being told what she is: a legacy, a responsibility, a name that carries expectations heavier than what she desires. She wants power on her own terms, not the carefully measured kind her family approves of. When she steps through the doors of Kachina Academy, she tells herself she's finally free. But freedom, she will learn, is far more complicated when the shadows have already learned your name.
Alejandro Núñez has spent sixteen years in the foster system with one truth: unexpected visitors mean bad news. So when a stranger appears at the orphanage door claiming to have known his mother - a mother the system said was nobody - Alejandro has every reason not to believe him. But the stranger has a photograph. And a letter. And an envelope that floats across the room without being touched. For the first time in his life, Alejandro has a name for the strange things that have always happened around him. For the first time, he has somewhere to go. What waits for him at Kachina Academy isn't just an education - it's the truth about who his mother was, what she could do, and why the most powerful people in the Atlantean world already know his name.
Together, these four students will begin to understand what their abilities truly mean - not just as gifts to be trained, but as pieces of something vast, ancient, and dangerously close to waking. The ley lines running beneath the earth are shifting. Sacred sites from Stonehenge to the Peruvian highlands are responding to something none of the elders will name aloud. And somewhere beyond the reach of the academy's carefully constructed order, forces that predate civilization itself are moving with terrible patience toward a single, inevitable moment.
The world they were born into is not the world they thought it was.
Atlantis did not simply sink. It fractured - scattering its knowledge, its power, and its warnings across every civilization that rose in its wake. The pyramids remember. The stone circles remember. The mountains, the ocean floors, and the coded manuscripts locked in private libraries remember.
What lies beyond it could save everything.
Or end it.
Echo of Atlantis: The Ūmdëdŭ Codex is the first chapter of an epic six-book saga blending ancient mythology, psychic adventure, and the timeless hunger to understand who we are and where we came from. Perfect for readers who devour their fantasy with a side of real history - and find themselves unable to stop researching long after the final page.
The awakening has begun. The only question is whether they are ready for what answers back.
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