Some maps don’t guide you.
They erase you.
When historian Dr. Elara Vance steals a forbidden 16th-century map from a Lisbon black-market auction, she thinks she’s uncovered a scholarly anomaly. Instead, she becomes the anomaly.
The coordinates on the map don’t exist.
And someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.
Haunted by her father’s decades-old disappearance and shaken when her mentor vanishes after warning her to destroy the map, Elara begins to question everything she trusts. Her research attracts a shadow organization that watches her movements, burns evidence, and quietly rewrites history. Each revelation leaves her more isolated, more hunted, and less certain of her own sanity.
The only person who might help is Jonas Reed, a former Navy diver with secrets of his own—and a connection to the same coordinates that shattered Elara’s family.
As clues surface and loyalties fracture, Elara faces a terrifying possibility: the map isn’t leading her to a discovery.
It’s leading her to a lie buried beneath the ocean.
And once the truth surfaces, history itself may not survive it.
Genre: Mystery
They erase you.
When historian Dr. Elara Vance steals a forbidden 16th-century map from a Lisbon black-market auction, she thinks she’s uncovered a scholarly anomaly. Instead, she becomes the anomaly.
The coordinates on the map don’t exist.
And someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.
Haunted by her father’s decades-old disappearance and shaken when her mentor vanishes after warning her to destroy the map, Elara begins to question everything she trusts. Her research attracts a shadow organization that watches her movements, burns evidence, and quietly rewrites history. Each revelation leaves her more isolated, more hunted, and less certain of her own sanity.
The only person who might help is Jonas Reed, a former Navy diver with secrets of his own—and a connection to the same coordinates that shattered Elara’s family.
As clues surface and loyalties fracture, Elara faces a terrifying possibility: the map isn’t leading her to a discovery.
It’s leading her to a lie buried beneath the ocean.
And once the truth surfaces, history itself may not survive it.
Genre: Mystery
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