When Professor Jazmina "Jaz" Kashani heads to Arizona to begin her latest archaeological dig, she expects sand, ruins, and long days in the heat - not a crashed UFO, a buried pyramid that shouldn't exist, or the revelation that she's carrying alien technology in her skull.
Hunted by a covert black‑ops unit desperate to claim the chip in her brain, Jaz is swept into a world of secrets older than civilisation itself. Her only hope lies with astronaut Sally Rider, commander of the deep‑space vessel Athena, tasked with investigating a second impossible pyramid - this one on Mars.
Together, Jaz, Sally, and the crew of the Athena must decipher the meaning of the strange glyphs linking Earth and the Moon, uncover the truth encoded in Jaz's DNA, and confront a mystery that stretches from the deserts of Arizona to the ancient face of Mars.
What they discover will change their lives forever, rewrite human history - and determine the future of mankind among the stars.