The story tells the sweeping tale of young twins Yve and
Etienne Dacourt, and the roles they play in a plot originated by the all
encompassing Prophetic Church to re-diversify human society, ending its
perceived stagnation. Yve is discovered as being singularly unique in that she
bears the lost genes of pre-Assimilation humanity, the ‘holy grail of genetics’.
The troubles begin when Yve is kidnapped and in secret taken
to the Basilica, the Vatican style city of the Prophetic Church. There it is
revealed to her that the female half of the Epoch has already been made
infertile by a drug secretly administered through the Holy Waters and that from
her loins the precious genes will be cultivated and distributed across the Epoch
in replacement. Meanwhile her twin Etienne is targeted by clever manipulation as
a decoy to blind the government to what the Church is planning. Enraged,
believing his sister dead at the hands of government agents, he is led to join a
partisan movement bent on political revolution. Etienne Dacourt though is far
more than a mere rebel. He proves himself to be an inspirational leader and soon
inspires a social upheaval on a scale the Church and government had never
dreamed possible.
In the climatic events that ensue, the Epoch will be shaken
to its very foundations, shattering old concepts and beliefs. The twins find
themselves playing on a field the scope of which they could never before have
imagined, but had both secretly dreamed of on their quiet home world of Muscat.
Their old lives and innocence are left behind them forever, the bond between
them strained to its limit, as they take up the new mantles thrust upon them:
Etienne as political leader of the Epoch, Yve as a saint revered by trillions.
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Synopsis Epoch
Chapter I
