For thousands of years, humanity has looked to the heavens and called what it saw gods. Angels. Miracles.
Ezekiel has always wondered if we simply lacked the right words.
When the teenager is taken from his Texas home by beings unlike anything humanity has imagined, he is given an impossible opportunity: three questions-and answers hidden across millions of years of forgotten history.
What he discovers reaches back to Mars, the birth of humanity, and the ancient stories that shaped civilization. The beings our ancestors worshipped were never gods. The miracles they witnessed were something else entirely. And behind some of humanity's oldest stories stands a name history nearly erased:
Ophiuchus.
Once a brilliant scientist. Once one of thirteen. Eventually remembered as the serpent, the adversary, the fallen one.
Now she is coming back.
And Ezekiel may be the only person alive who understands why.
What if humanity's oldest stories were true-
but we understood them wrong?