The Artifact: A First Contact Standalone - Peter Cawdron

Category: Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: A First Contact Standalone

Written by Peter Cawdron
Read by Siobhan Waring
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Listening Length
9 hours and 8 minutes

Publication date
October 1, 2024

Five hundred miles from the Mediterranean, deep in the interior of Libya, lost in the heart of the Sahara itself, lies an oasis trapped in the past.

With no surface water, Harat Zuwayyah barely supports any life at all. The scorching wind howls across the desert, driving the sand and threatening to bury the village. Professor Susan Taylor is excavating an Egyptian tomb dated to 4500 BCE. She uncovers the mummified remains of a wealthy family that died on the trade route, revealing insights into a lost culture, but it’s the talisman watching over the grave that causes her heart to race. Red eyes glow from the back of the cave…

First Contact is a series of standalone novels that explore humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life.

Contains a special note from the author.