Art by Stelian

Massilia Press · March 2027

The Eternal Garden of Souls

A trilogy by Stelian Paraschiv

A city above the sea conquered death, then decided which of its people had souls. Twenty-five thousand years later, in Seattle, seventeen children draw their first breath in the same second, and a machine under the city begins to answer.

Book One

The Aethra Secret

Book Two

Children of the Veil

Book Three

The Divided Eternity

Cover of The Aethra Secret

Book One

The Aethra Secret

They could have turned it aside. They did not.

A city above the sea has conquered death. It has also decided which of its people have souls.

Ilovia Vale is born in the lower tiers and classified Hollow — a body with no Anchor, property under Aethran law. She survives the furnace gate, the Registry, and an Academy that repeats her answers from behind a curtain. Beneath the mountain she finds forty-four instruments older than her civilization, and the record of everything the Examiners did to a small blue world they were only meant to watch.

Paperback316 pages6 × 9 in ISBN 979-8-9822201-0-3

Cover of Children of the Veil

Book Two

Children of the Veil

A record can turn a reason into a cage.

Seventeen children share one mind across seventeen bodies. The world wants to study them, protect them, own them, or open them.

On another world a soul from a drowned civilization wakes inside three bodies at once. Beneath Seattle, forty-four ancient nodes come back to life. A corporation that learned to build an Anchor discovers it has built something that can refuse. And when the children are asked to decide their own future, the adults argue about whether eight-year-olds understand enough to choose.

Paperback296 pages6 × 9 in ISBN 979-8-9822201-1-0

Cover of The Divided Eternity

Book Three

The Divided Eternity

The impact was not initiated. It was permitted.

At the end of the universe before this one, a single intelligence divided itself so that difference could begin. Then it left an instruction: bring everything back.

The instruction is still running. It has crossed the death of a universe, and it has reached Earth — offering every living person the return of everyone they have lost. The question is not whether the dead can be recovered. It is whether anything that cannot be surprised is still alive.

Paperback284 pages6 × 9 in ISBN 979-8-9822201-2-7

Stelian Paraschiv

The author

Stelian Paraschiv

Born in Romania. Lives in Washington State. The Eternal Garden of Souls is his first work of fiction, a trilogy about consciousness, memory, and the unseen architecture of the soul. He also turns bowls.

Publication

All three books publish in March 2027.

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