Children of The Watchers: Before The Flood
Before the waters came, there was a valley. And before the giants, there were the Watchers.
Adah has spent twenty-three years reading the night sky from the roof of her father's house. She knows the courses of the wandering lights, the smell of weather on the wind, the roots that heal and the roots that kill. She has no word for paradise, because she has never lived anywhere else.
She has no word for war.
Then something comes down from the mountains in the north.
They call themselves the Watchers-two hundred heavenly beings who looked upon the daughters of men and chose to descend. They bring knowledge humanity has never possessed: the working of metal, the reading of the stars, the secrets of root and flame, beauty and adornment.
And they take wives.
Adah takes one of them-Shemhazai-and bears him a daughter the world has no category to hold.
Her name is Nira.
She is not quite human and not quite other. And she is only the beginning.
As forbidden knowledge spreads, the gifts of the Watchers begin to curdle into appetite. Weapons appear. Violence grows. The Nephilim are born. What began as wonder becomes corruption, hunger, and bloodshed, until the cry of the earth rises toward heaven itself.
Adah watches the world change around the daughter she would burn that world to protect-and understands before anyone will say it aloud what the gathering darkness means.
A reckoning is coming.
Inspired by Genesis 6 and the Book of 1 Enoch, Children of the Watchers: Before the Flood is a sweeping work of biblical supernatural fiction set in the ancient world before Noah's Flood. It reimagines the mysterious account of the sons of God, the daughters of men, the Watchers, and the Nephilim through one woman caught between heaven, humanity, and the child born of both.
A story of forbidden knowledge, impossible love, motherhood, corruption, and a beautiful world moving slowly toward judgment.
The first book in the After Eden series.
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