The Golden Age is over. Twelve thousand, eight hundred years ago, civilisation lived in harmony from sun-struck Uruk to sea-ringed Atlantis, across the jungles of Amazonia and the Southern Lands. In Sumer, newly crowned Nin Innana inherits a thriving kingdom and a fractured family. When word arrives that her estranged sister is rallying Neanderthal clans beyond "The Ice," Innana leads a perilous northern march, determined to stop a war before it starts. Aryes, a scholar-explorer, uncovers a buried temple and an artefact even the scholars of Atlantis can't decipher. A royal assassination and a brazen theft thrust him into a race to uncover the item's secrets. Two quests for truth and survival arc toward the same horizon. As oceans rise and a global cataclysm nears, alliances fray and long-sleeping powers stir. Kyle Wright is an Australian writer and educator whose work intertwines myth, deep time, and the riddle of lost civilisations. An avid student of ancient history, he has travelled to many of the sites that inspire his stories. He threads cultural philosophies and ideologies through his work, shaping myth with a historian's grounded perspective. He teaches Media, English and Philosophy in Victoria. Ancient Odyssey is his debut novel.