This second thrilling digital prequel novella to Endgame: The Calling follows the lives of four of the twelve Players before they were chosen as the one to save their ancient bloodline--and win Endgame. Before the Calling . . . Twelve Players-in-training are tested to the very edge of their phys
Descendant
โ Scribed by Jeffrey A. Levin
- Publisher
- iUniverse
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The year is 2378, and the world knows sixteen-year-old Michael Eisenstein as someone who comes from a long line of mass murderers that spans more than three centuries. Yes, he is the most unlikely person to begin fighting for the survival of the human race.
The planet has experienced eight additional world wars since the dawn of the twenty-first century, and extraterrestrials are living in the ocean, beneath a world devastated by the effects of climate change. Michael's mother, Monica, lives in fear, and his father, Benjamin, is the most recent Eisenstein responsible for creating ever larger and more efficient weapons of mass destruction.
Michael, meanwhile, fears becoming his father and struggles with suicidal depression--that is, until he meets Maya and immediately falls in love. But when Ben takes Michael to Giza on a mission to find new energy sources, the boy accidentally falls into a tunnel and encounters a time traveler by the name of Ezekial. From...
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