The Thirteenth Era

In 2479, humanity has perfected comfort. Pain is optional. Grief is private. Even death has become polite.

Historian Dr. Aren Shaw teaches an age when suffering still meant something. During a routine lecture on ancient Jerusalem, he watches the Via Dolorosa vanish from the historical record. Then sealed archives begin naming him in documents written centuries before his birth.

The Ministry of Continuity does not want answers. It wants compliance. Taken into a secret program beneath New Rotterdam, Aren is conditioned to enter the past and assume a role the future already depends on. Every previous candidate failed. Some lost their identities. Others tried to change history and erased millions of lives.

When Aren survives a death the Ministry cannot explain, faith takes root inside the operation itself. Centuries pass. The man he was begins to disappear beneath the symbol forming around his name. And somewhere ahead lies a final choice: what remains of Aren Shaw when belief no longer needs him?

This collected edition includes all four volumes of The Thirteenth Era:

• Book I: The Fracture
• Book II: The Nazarene Protocol
• Book III: Kingdom of Ash and Stars
• Book IV: The Mother of God

A complete science-fiction mystery about memory, faith, identity, and the cost of a world without suffering.

The story ends where belief begins or breaks.