The Chronos Defect

A Supernatural Archaeological Thriller

The traffic made her late. The temple made her history.Dr. Garrick Kestler is a man of footnotes, not feelings. A sixty-three-year-old retired professor of archaic dialects, he has spent his life decoding the past while ignoring the present. Now, standing under the stifling white preservation tent of the Temple of Apollo in Greece, he has one last chance to fix his relationship with his estranged daughter, Maren.But Maren never arrives.Instead, the modern world simply… stops. The cicadas go silent. The construction lights die. And in the suffocating heat, Garrick finds a backpack lying in the dust. It belongs to his daughter, but the nylon is rotted, bleached white by decades of sun exposure.Then he sees the carving on the ancient column. Scratched into the stone in frantic, jagged letters.HELP ME GARRICK.It is written in his own handwriting.To save his daughter, Garrick must step out of the tent and into a nightmare: a pristine, violent version of 420 BC where the gods are hungry, and the history books are wrong. But the monsters here don’t wear scales or claws. The High Priest of this blood-soaked ritual wears Garrick’s own face—a version of himself who sacrificed everything for knowledge.Armed only with a bad knee, a tweed jacket, and a knowledge of dead syntax, Garrick must debate the laws of physics with a god who wants blood.Because in this temple, history doesn’t just repeat itself. It traps you.________________________"Indiana Jones meets The Twilight Zone in this intelligent, high-velocity supernatural thriller."Themes:

• Artifact Horror
• Time Slips & Time Loops
• Father-Daughter Redemption
• Greek Mythology (The Dark Side)
• The "Grandpa" Hero (Competence Porn)

Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Douglas Preston, and the historical eeriness of early Dean Koontz.