The Lost Souls (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Patrick Maher, 2026
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Paperback. The Intergalactic Council calls it the Devourer. The Order of Orphic Vitae thinks it is the path to godhood. Arthur Templar calls it the worst thing he has ever felt - vast, hungry, and waking up beneath the earth.Arthur is eighteen now, and the stakes are no longer local. The ancient network that runs beneath Elderberry Valley extends across every continent on Earth, possibly across other worlds. Something has been imprisoned inside it for ten thousand years - not a creature exactly, but something that thinks, that wants, and that has spent millennia absorbing the awareness of the dead. Millions of souls, stripped of their immortality and consumed.Seraphina Volker, 800 years old and utterly certain of her own destiny, believes she can release this entity and negotiate with it for eternal life. She has been systematically activating nodes across the globe, turning a preservation network into a weapon, and she is six weeks from reaching the threshold that cannot be undone. But Dr Elena Corvus - brilliant, pragmatic, and playing a longer game than anyone realises - has her own plans.Arthur and his five cousins are deployed across three locations simultaneously: Antarctica, the Mariana Trench, and the ancient Core chamber beneath what used to be Thunder Mountain. Each holds a critical node. Each is being activated. The seals that have held for three thousand years are failing, not because anyone has broken them, but because coordinated pressure from three directions at once is more than even Pleiadian engineering can withstand.When everything breaks at once, Arthur discovers that the Devourer cannot be destroyed - you cannot kill awareness, it is essentially immortal. It can only be transformed. And transformation requires something neither strategy nor force can provide.The Lost Souls is the fifth and final book in the Arthur Templar Timethreader Chronicles - a series set in the fictional Elderberry Valley of Western Australia, where ancient cosmic forces intersect with the lives of six psychically gifted teenagers who carry Pleiadian heritage they are only beginning to understand. The series begins with The Curse of the Nibiru, when Arthur and his friends are twelve and their valley is threatened by a Nibiruan mining operation. By Book Five they are seventeen and eighteen, facing a crisis that threatens every conscious being on Earth - and the ancient network that connects them all is finally ready to become what it was always meant to be.For readers who loved Percy Jackson's mythological depth, Ender's Game's moral weight, and The Darkest Minds' fierce ensemble, this series offers something genuinely different: a fantasy grounded in Australian landscape, Pleiadian mythology, and the idea that the most powerful thing a person can do is choose connection over isolation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- The Lost Souls (Paperback)
- Author
- Patrick Maher
- Publisher
- Patrick Maher
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798233392849
The Intergalactic Council calls it the Devourer. The Order of Orphic Vitae thinks it is the path to godhood. Arthur Templar calls it the worst thing he has ever felt - vast, hungry, and waking up beneath the earth.
Arthur is eighteen now, and the stakes are no longer local. The ancient network that runs beneath Elderberry Valley extends across every continent on Earth, possibly across other worlds. Something has been imprisoned inside it for ten thousand years - not a creature exactly, but something that thinks, that wants, and that has spent millennia absorbing the awareness of the dead. Millions of souls, stripped of their immortality and consumed.
Seraphina Volker, 800 years old and utterly certain of her own destiny, believes she can release this entity and negotiate with it for eternal life. She has been systematically activating nodes across the globe, turning a preservation network into a weapon, and she is six weeks from reaching the threshold that cannot be undone. But Dr Elena Corvus - brilliant, pragmatic, and playing a longer game than anyone realises - has her own plans.
Arthur and his five cousins are deployed across three locations simultaneously: Antarctica, the Mariana Trench, and the ancient Core chamber beneath what used to be Thunder Mountain. Each holds a critical node. Each is being activated. The seals that have held for three thousand years are failing, not because anyone has broken them, but because coordinated pressure from three directions at once is more than even Pleiadian engineering can withstand.
When everything breaks at once, Arthur discovers that the Devourer cannot be destroyed - you cannot kill awareness, it is essentially immortal. It can only be transformed. And transformation requires something neither strategy nor force can provide.
The Lost Souls is the fifth and final book in the Arthur Templar Timethreader Chronicles - a series set in the fictional Elderberry Valley of Western Australia, where ancient cosmic forces intersect with the lives of six psychically gifted teenagers who carry Pleiadian heritage they are only beginning to understand. The series begins with The Curse of the Nibiru, when Arthur and his friends are twelve and their valley is threatened by a Nibiruan mining operation. By Book Five they are seventeen and eighteen, facing a crisis that threatens every conscious being on Earth - and the ancient network that connects them all is finally ready to become what it was always meant to be.
For readers who loved Percy Jackson's mythological depth, Ender's Game's moral weight, and The Darkest Minds' fierce ensemble, this series offers something genuinely different: a fantasy grounded in Australian landscape, Pleiadian mythology, and the idea that the most powerful thing a person can do is choose connection over isolation.
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About the Author
Patrick Maher spins curious tales of imagination and mystery, set in other times and other worlds for readers of all ages, where psychic abilities, science, and medicine can easily leap about in the playground of the mind together. His stories are set in worlds that seem normal but one step removed, where deep, enduring friendships are valued.
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