Hidden Cave: The Rise of the Champions

By Ken Taylor

They were not the most powerful people in their kingdom. Three thousand years ago, four people stood at the mouth of a cave above the Amber Sea and made a choice that history was not ready to record. They were something rarer...people who could not be made to stop. The cave sealed their rings. The rings remembered. The cave waited.

It is still waiting. But not for much longer.

Hidden Cave: The Rise of the Champions is the story of four people who have nothing in common except everything that matters. Omari, a man in 1712 Louisiana who was classified as property and spent six months quietly preparing to walk forty-three people to freedom. Tamia, a princess and genius who was preserved across three centuries inside a facility that tried to own her mind and learned too late that her mind was not available. Lacey, the Princess of Valenwood, who has been searching for her brother for eight years with the calm certainty of someone who already knows how the search ends. And Junior, a prince rebuilt into a weapon by a government program that could not understand why, no matter what they took from him, he remained exactly himself.

Each of them carries a ring. Each ring has been waiting for its bearer for three thousand years. And an alien empire that has been patient, methodical, and absolutely certain of its own victory is about to discover that it did not wait long enough.

This is not a story about the most powerful people winning. It is a story about what happens when the right people finally arrive at the same place at the same time, carrying everything history preserved in them, ready to use it. The cave did not choose champions. It chose people who could not be unmade. As it turns out, those are the most dangerous kind.

Hidden Cave: The Rise of the Champions is the first novel in an expanding universe. The champions have arrived. The story is only beginning. Welcome to the Universe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7B2DG9Y
• ISBN13: 9798184816845
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"