The Garden

By: McCullock, Mary A.

The Garden - Book Two of The Awakening Earth Trilogy

Disgraced journalist Maya Medina is living in exile when a burner phone summons her to a secret facility buried beneath the New Mexico desert.

There, she meets Cade-a man who claims to remember histories no human ever recorded.

Cade does not offer proof. He offers sequence: worlds that rose and fell before Earth, civilizations shaped by unseen hands, and an ancient project meant to guide humanity's development from its first breath. At the center of it all lies Eden-not paradise, but a controlled environment whose true purpose has been hidden inside myth for millennia.

As Maya listens, she realizes she is not being asked to publish.

She is being prepared.

The deeper Cade goes, the more Maya senses that the story is not finished-that powerful forces still care very much about what she hears, and that her presence in the facility is already being noticed. Leaving may not be as simple as walking away.

The Garden is a slow-burn revelation thriller about buried histories, engineered obedience, and the dangerous moment when a species begins to remember who made the rules.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMC53FV5
• ISBN13: 9798247389279
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"