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Guardians of the Garden
Hardcover
Series: Guardians, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Variant
Published: Jun 29 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elizabeth Ward has spent six months waking from the same nightmare: a dead garden, a cloaked figure, and symbols carved into a living tree.
As a scholar of ancient history and forgotten languages, Elizabeth knows better than to mistake dreams for evidence. But when one of the symbols from her nightmare appears in an old manuscript, and the same warning seems to echo through the sudden rise of a powerful new artificial intelligence system called Soteria, the line between myth and reality begins to break.
Soteria is being hailed across the world as humanity's salvation. Created by the brilliant and dangerous Alexander Kestrel, it promises order, protection, and solutions to crises no government has been able to stop. But Elizabeth sees something older beneath its shining promise: conquest dressed as rescue.
When a strange satellite image points toward Tell el-Muqayyar, the ancient site of Ur in Iraq, Elizabeth follows the clue across the world. There she meets Dr. Amir Al-Hadidi, a historian who understands that old stories are rarely simple, and Hassan, a guide whose loyalty and courage will become essential as the search grows more dangerous.
What begins as an academic mystery becomes a race through ancient ruins, sacred patterns, hidden thresholds, and a world sliding toward collapse. Rivers are drying. Governments are surrendering control. Soldiers are moving before anyone understands why. And somewhere beneath layers of history, faith, and myth, the Garden waits.
But the Garden does not belong to those who seek power.
It answers to those willing to guard what remains.
Guardians of the Garden is a mythic archaeological thriller about ancient symbols, artificial intelligence, faith, sacrifice, and the fragile balance between humanity's hunger for control and its responsibility to protect.
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