Book I of The First Exile Trilogy · The First Exile Trilogy
Exile from Eden
HE WAS THE FIRST MURDERER. HE WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO DIE.
The blood went into the earth, and the earth accepted it without judgement. Cain kills his brother in a field, and God does not kill him back. He is marked instead, made unkillable, and sent east to live with what he has done. Exile teaches him three things. His wounds close. His years stop counting. And there is a hunger in him now that bread cannot touch. So he builds the first city. He fathers a line. He watches the thing inside him pass into his children’s blood, and he understands at last that the mark was never protection. It was a sentence with no end. Then the rain begins, and the world he made is taken back.
309 pages · 9798194349067 · Perch Press
Book I of The First Exile Trilogy. The story continues in The Kingdoms of Dust.
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M. A. Khan writes at the meeting point of ancient warning and modern consequence. A British author with a previous career at the sharp end of military and trauma medicine, he brings a surgeon's economy and a soldier's eye to stories that range from apocalyptic geopolitical thrillers to mythic dark fantasy. His books ask one recurring question: when the old stories said we were warned, what exactly were we supposed to do about it? He writes as M. A. Khan; his nonfiction appears under Mansoor Ali Khan. Published by Perch Press.