The Fractured Eternity: One truth. Three fragments. A world divided

By Shikha Gautam

THE FRACTURED ETERNITY
by Shikha Gautam

Archaeologist Aarav Sharma is eleven days into a routine dig in the Rajasthan desert when his brush finds an edge that shouldn't be there.
The stone he uncovers is impossible. Three ancient scripts - Devanagari, Archaic Greek, Proto-Sinaitic - layered on the same basalt surface, from three civilizations that never met, describing the same event in the same structural language. A flood. A warning. A survival.
At 2:47 AM, his phone rings. An unknown voice says four words: Put the stone back.
He doesn't.
What follows takes Aarav from a hidden chamber under the Rajasthani hills to a centuries-old secret archive, from the tea houses of Istanbul to the step-wells of Varanasi - and into the most dangerous idea in human history: that every religion on earth is telling the same story. That Noah, Manu, Utnapishtim, and Deucalion are not different myths. They are different witnesses to the same event, writing the same dispatch in different languages.
The truth was not lost. It was deliberately fractured - broken into pieces and distributed across every civilization so that no single faith, no single power, no single person could ever possess it whole and use it as a weapon.
Someone has been guarding that fracture for eighteen generations.
And someone else is done waiting.
The Fractured Eternity is a novel about what we protect when we protect religion, what we destroy when we fight over it, and what it would mean to finally ask - not who is right - but what if we all are.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYL387YQ
• ISBN13: 9798258621382
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"