Book One, The Song Beyond the Storm. Blurb draft

The blurb and back cover are something I've been preparing for a while. If you're curious to learn more, I hope this gives you a feel for the story.

The blurb:

The UK is fractured and bruised after fighting broke out between True Britain and the Tahaluf Noor Initiative. Hope rides on a treaty to end the civil war. But looming in darkness was a threat that could shatter the foundations of faith, and the void hungered.

Marc Dervin, a soldier who’d given his life to war, has been renewed with experimental cybernetics and is sent on one final mission to the burning sands of Petra, Jordan. There, he unearths threads of fate woven long before humanity harnessed conscious thought, long before we learned to sing.

As Marc delves deeper into the mystery, he realises he may be in for more than he can handle this time. This mission may take his life and his soul.

Nestled in the battle-worn countryside of England, Lina, a project manager for the TNI, responds to a terrorist threat at her father's base, Oakshaw. But Lina soon learns that the world's powers are all searching for the same thing and are attempting to get there first. Inadvertently, Lina treads too far into the truth and finds herself unavoidably at the centre of the battle for Earth.

In a world of ideological divides, one discovery may unify humanity against an unknowable enemy... or lead to our ultimate destruction.

The Song Beyond The Storm explores identity, faith, and attempts to find reason in the unseen patterns all around us. As a character-driven saga of sci-fi mystery, political intrigue, and a flicker of cosmic horror, you'll be compelled to question reality and your own humanity.

Bonus - The Pattern Sequence, blurb draft:

The Pattern Sequence series takes you on a journey through the aeons. Discover what it means to truly have your faith shaken and rewritten by an existential threat to end existential threats.

When the time comes, what choice would you make? Would you fight? Would you choose to go back and do it all again? What price is too high to win an unwinnable war?

Find out the answers and the fate of Marc, Lina and Amir as they clash with powers they can barely comprehend and grapple with truths that ripple through all dimensions of existence.