Ancient Odyssey is a work of grounded speculative fiction set at the onset of the Younger Dryas, a period marked by sudden climate change and civilisational upheaval. 

The novel imagines a world at the edge of collapse, where myth, politics, and human ambition intersect as the so-called Golden Age comes to an end. 

Twelve thousand, eight hundred years ago, civilisation stretches across the ancient world, from the cities of Sumer to the island empire of Atlantis, from the jungles of Amazonia to the distant Southern Lands. Trade routes, knowledge, and belief systems bind these cultures together, but beneath the surface, fractures are beginning to form. 

In Sumer, newly crowned Nin Innana inherits both a powerful kingdom and a deeply fractured family. When news arrives that her estranged sister is rallying Neanderthal clans beyond the frozen northern frontier, Innana is forced into a perilous campaign to prevent a war that could shatter the fragile balance holding civilisation together. Her journey is as much political and moral as it is military, testing her beliefs about power, loyalty, and responsibility. 

Meanwhile, Aryes, a scholar-explorer from Atlantis, uncovers a buried temple and an artefact that defies the understanding of even the most learned scholars. When a royal assassination and a brazen theft thrust him into danger, Aryes is drawn into a race to uncover the object’s true nature. What begins as an intellectual pursuit becomes a struggle for survival, forcing him to confront the limits of knowledge and the cost of truth. 

As these two storylines converge, the world itself begins to unravel. Oceans rise, ancient alliances fracture, and long-dormant forces stir beneath the surface of the earth. 

What follows is not simply a story of catastrophe, but of human choice under pressure: how people respond when certainty disappears, when belief systems fail, and when the future of civilisation hangs in the balance. 

Blending myth-inspired worldbuilding with character-driven storytelling, Ancient Odyssey explores themes of memory, power, loss, and meaning without presenting a historical thesis. 

It is a novel about the end of an age, and the human stories that unfold when the ground beneath the world begins to give way.