The Covenant Beneath: Book 1 of the Covenant Trilogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798258269423)

Some connections can't be explained. Some doors, once opened, don't close.

In the late eighties, a group of teenagers in the Valley of the Sun discovered that certain experiences - shared, intense, and impossible to forget - could align people in ways that defied explanation. They called it the chair. They called it the trip. They called it the night everything changed.

Decades later, Tim has built a billion-dollar company on the science of human perception. His friends have scattered, grown, survived. But the connection they opened together has never fully disappeared.

When a Wyoming reunion turns into first contact - a crashed alien craft, a ruthless neighbor with a human hunting network, and a message from something ancient beneath the earth - Tim finally understands why.

What started as a teenage experiment in perception was never random. The doors they opened were real. And the civilization that needed them to open was patient enough to wait.

Now, with a dangerous network exposed and a man named Richard rising to power in a place that shouldn't exist, Tim must learn what it means to be an Anchor - not a commander, not a hero, but the one who keeps everything from breaking apart.

The Covenant Beneath is the first book in a trilogy about the people we become when the world stops pretending to make sense - and what we owe each other when it doesn't.