The Stone Lion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781996893227)

What rose beside the Nile would become legend.

But before there were pharaohs, before pyramids, before the first kingdoms carved their names into stone, there was only the river... and the strangers who emerged from the mountains.

For thousands of years, the Zydeans survived hidden beneath the Antarctic ice aboard the ancient Arkship Arvidan, watching Earth slowly heal from the grip of the last great glaciation. When the warming world finally calls them outward, thirty-two expeditions are sent across the planet to search for places where civilization might begin again.

The first expedition crossed the lands that would one day become South and North America.

This is the story of the second expedition, sent to the vast green heart of ancient Africa.

Kaelor's people arrive in a world of rivers, grasslands, mountains, and endless life-a prehistoric Nile Valley where humanity is still young, scattered, and deeply connected to the rhythms of nature.

What begins as cautious first contact soon becomes something far more dangerous... and far more beautiful.

As bonds form between the two peoples, old fears collide with impossible new futures. Hidden in the shadow of the Atlas Mountains, while a colossal lion monument slowly rises above the fertile valley below, both civilizations must confront a question neither world was prepared to answer:

What happens when survival is no longer enough?

The Stone Lion is a sweeping prehistoric science-fiction epic about memory, belonging, and the birth of civilization itself-the third volume in The Arvidan Chronicles.