Daimones

Dan Amenta wakes up one morning to discover the world has changed...the Apocalypse has arrived. Death, destruction, and disaster are spreading around the globe. Yet Dan and his family remain untouched. He begins to fear they are the only three people left alive on Earth. They are not.Efforts to survive and make contact with others reveal disturbing truths about the human extermination. Dan finds Laura who discloses even more. Her presence - a young, sexy, disruptive girl - adds questions about what is moral and ethical in this new reality. Then supernatural experiences reported by other survivors force Dan to seek explanations from his own past. Memories of childhood hallucinations strike him with sledgehammer force, bringing him face-to-face with a secret millions of years old. Planet Earth is in the hands of an older power, one Dan never envisioned and dares not disobey... "e;Even with the best of intentions, cruelty is just around the corner."e; Voted#1 in Aliens First Contact#2 in End of the World, behind "e;The Road"e; and in front of "e;The Stand"e;#3 in Apocalypses and Distopia, behind "e;The Stand"e; and in front of "e;The Hunger Games"e;in Goodreads Listopia------------------------------- Why on earth Earth becomes Eridu in the "e;Daimones Trilogy"e;?Every name in the trilogy bears a symbolic meaning. Eridu was long considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia, and is still today argued to be the oldest city in the world. Located 12 km southwest of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew about temples, almost in sight of one another. In Sumerian mythology, Eridu was originally the home of Enki, who was considered to have founded the city, later known by the Akkadians as Ea. His temple was called E-Abzu, as Enki was believed to live in Abzu, an aquifer from which all life was believed to stem. Eridu, also transliterated as Eridug, means "e;mighty place"e; or "e;guidance place"e;.

Dan Amenta wakes up one morning to discover the world has changed...the Apocalypse has arrived. Death, destruction, and disaster are spreading around the globe. Yet Dan and his family remain untouched. He begins to fear they are the only three people left alive on Earth. They are not.Efforts to survive and make contact with others reveal disturbing truths about the human extermination. Dan finds Laura who discloses even more. Her presence - a young, sexy, disruptive girl - adds questions about what is moral and ethical in this new reality. Then supernatural experiences reported by other survivors force Dan to seek explanations from his own past. Memories of childhood hallucinations strike him with sledgehammer force, bringing him face-to-face with a secret millions of years old. Planet Earth is in the hands of an older power, one Dan never envisioned and dares not disobey... "e;Even with the best of intentions, cruelty is just around the corner."e; Voted#1 in Aliens First Contact#2 in End of the World, behind "e;The Road"e; and in front of "e;The Stand"e;#3 in Apocalypses and Distopia, behind "e;The Stand"e; and in front of "e;The Hunger Games"e;in Goodreads Listopia------------------------------- Why on earth Earth becomes Eridu in the "e;Daimones Trilogy"e;?Every name in the trilogy bears a symbolic meaning. Eridu was long considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia, and is still today argued to be the oldest city in the world. Located 12 km southwest of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew about temples, almost in sight of one another. In Sumerian mythology, Eridu was originally the home of Enki, who was considered to have founded the city, later known by the Akkadians as Ea. His temple was called E-Abzu, as Enki was believed to live in Abzu, an aquifer from which all life was believed to stem. Eridu, also transliterated as Eridug, means "e;mighty place"e; or "e;guidance place"e;.