Road to Hindostan

Empyrean is a novel spooled in blood and silver, set in the hollows of Appalachia where a man named Elias dares to build a sanctuary-and instead awakens something.

Fleeing war and economic ruin, two fractured families settle the forgotten valley of Empyrean, believing they've found a promised land. But the silence there is unnatural. The stillness, watched. And the earth itself seems to keep its own dark scripture.

As old science flickers and prophetic visions surge, the community fractures-some drawn toward a silver-born ritual of survival, others seduced by the voice that speaks beyond the veil. A people are marked. Dreams go missing. A gateway opens.

Told through the eyes of the faithful, the skeptical, and the damned, Empyrean is a story of exile and belonging, of matriarchs who remember and sons who forget. It is a book about the cost of silence, the hunger of belief, and the dangerous beauty of listening to the dark.