Would you die to expose the secret of mankind's origin? Otto just might... Desperate to journal his grandfather's discovery before his capture, young Otto hides in a secret Egyptian chamber avoiding nomads and flesh-eating beetles to tell a simple story -- how we began. Will the story be lost? Will the nomads find him? Or...does the unthinkable happen? This short story is the dark beginning of all things. This book is a loose prequel to TWO separate series. Uncovering a new theory around the origins of good and evil, The Phoenix Stone lights a torch that shines dimly down two dark passages: one that tumbles headlong into the future of human evolution, A.I. and government conspiracies with the genre-blending novel Devel Django; and one that sinks backwards in time to the Voodoo infested swamps of Louisiana and the abominations that have been left to grow there, unseen, for hundreds of years. Here A Grimoire Dark, is waiting.