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Ten Thousand Lions
Paperback
Series: The Noah Vaun Arcanum, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
London is watched by more than ten thousand lions.
They stand above doorways, guard bridges, watch from monuments and hide in the stonework of buildings passed by millions of people every day.
Most of us never notice them.
And almost no one has asked why so many are there.
During a routine conservation inspection at Temple Bar, structural engineer Noah Vaun discovers something that should not exist: a concealed cylinder containing an old map of London, the number 10,060, and a warning.
DO NOT COUNT THEM.
FOLLOW THEIR EYES.
The trail leads Noah to Dr Salma Naguib, a scholar of ancient texts with an instinct for patterns as sharp as his own eye for hidden structures. Together they begin to trace seven lions whose positions appear to form part of something far older and far more deliberate than either of them imagined.
Their investigation draws them into Robert Hooke's forgotten experiments, sealed archives, unexplained observer records and ancient accounts of Watchers and guardians. Others have followed fragments of the same trail.
Not all of them survived it.
Someone has spent centuries ensuring that the complete pattern is never reconstructed.
And Noah has seen part of it before.
As the clues converge across London, the search becomes more than a hunt for a hidden object. Beneath the familiar city lies a system connected to perception, power and an ancient secret humanity may have been preserving without ever understanding why.
Because the lions are not simply watching London.
And some doors were never meant to open in only one direction.
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