Gene Stiles

Colony - Neander Gene Stiles

The Izon Were Home The Izon Were Home After roaming the world for time untold, the Need would finally be fulfilled! The Izon would awaken the Ancestors, - The First People - the Gods who had created man in their own image. Haleah was the last Keeper, the genetic throwbacks that traced their linage all the way to the First Ancestors. Tall, blond, self-healing and female, a child was born only once in the nearly thousand year lifespan of a Keeper. Like all of her kind, Haleah stood apart and alone among the short, stocky, darker skinned Izon with their broad chests, thick brow ridges and powerful bodies. A Keeper's role was to follow the Need and lead the Izon through a dangerous and horrific world to where the Ancestors awaited their Awakening, bringing the Clan into a golden world of peace, prosperity and safety where they could finally rest. And now, after millennium of hardships, they were finally here. She would be alone no more. Haleah would be the last to open the Box, the first don the silver suit and read from the Book. But among the Izon are those who hate her and fear the Ancestors. For the first time in history a Keeper's life was in jeopardy from the within the Clan. So close to her goal, can Haleah survive insurmountable odds through a landscape seething with hidden dangers and from the deadly forces lurking within their own Clan to become the only Keeper to use the Key and awaken the Gods?