Marc Ellison

The Forgotten Gods

Each book stands alone with its own couple and its own ending. Read in order to watch the wider story of the bindings come apart.

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Book One · The Forgotten Gods

The Labyrinth Between Us

The myth says he was a monster. The myth is wrong.

Archaeologist Hallie Voss has a reputation for going places she shouldn't. Beneath a dig site in Thessaly she finds a passage breathing air three thousand years old, and at the bottom of it, not a ruin but a man. Chained. Awake. And nothing like the story the world has been telling about him.

His chains are built from narrative, a lie given force by centuries of belief, and they break only for a truth told plainly by someone willing to see him as he actually is. A slow-burn mythological romance about a woman who built her solitude into a fortress and called it independence, and the man who survived the dark by refusing to stop being himself.

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Book Two · The Forgotten Gods

The Stone That Remembers

The myth says the things in the deep were monsters. The myth is wrong.

Marine archaeologist Priya Anand followed a note on a map to a sealed chamber forty meters under the Aegean. What waits inside is ancient, precise, and armed with a dry wit refined by three thousand years of silence. His name is Cael. He has been waiting.

Cael receives memory through touch. Nothing Priya feels will stay private, and a woman who has spent her life making sure no one sees what she carries must decide whether she can bear being known that completely.

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Book Three · The Forgotten Gods

The Name She Carried

The myth says the old things were dangerous. The myth is wrong.

Historical linguist Nadia Vassis has spent fourteen years tracing the etymology of her own name. The trail ends on an unnamed island in the Aegean, at a circle of standing stones and the woman bound inside it: ancient, luminous, her voice compressed to a whisper by a prison built from her own words.

They took the keeper of names, cut her from the record, and left her to be forgotten. Nadia has carried that name her whole life without knowing who it belonged to, and a binding held in place by collective memory can only be undone by teaching the world to remember.

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Book Four · The Forgotten Gods

The Map She Burned

The myth says he drank the river. The myth is wrong.

Documentary filmmaker Sloane Mercer built a career on a single sentence: there's nothing behind the walls. Then seventeen leaked photographs lead her through a 1909 surveyor's map to a dry wadi in the Jordanian desert and a sealed spring chamber, and the man chained inside greets her with a quotation. From her.

His name is Tarn, keeper of a river the valley was told he cursed. For twelve years her voice has carried down the dead waterline into his cell, and he has learned her arguments better than her colleagues ever did.

Pre-order opens August 2026

Releases October 13, 2026