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Book Series: In Search of the WallBook One: The Quest for the WallThe year is 680 CE. The Umayyad Caliphate stands powerfulbut uneasy. Whispers of ancient legends stir as supernatural signs emerge from the East. In the city of Damascus, a governor assembles ten unlikely companionssoldiers, spies, wanderers, and a tormented scholartasked with an impossible mission: to find the fabled Wall of Gog and Magog.As their journey takes them from the sands of the Levant to the Great Wall of China, the travelers confront not only physical dangers but profound, unsettling truths. Something is awakening beyond the walland the world is not ready.Among them is Hakim, a brilliant scholar haunted by loss. Years ago, in the brutal war between the Umayyads and Byzantines in Tarsus, his wife and daughter were killed. Now, with vengeance burning inside him, he stands at a moral crossroads: if he finds the Wall, should he guard its terrible secretor destroy it, and let the world burn?History, myth, and spiritual reckoning collide in this gripping work of historical fiction set during the rise of the early Islamic empire. In Search of the Wall begins a sweeping saga that blends real events with ancient legendwhere every step forward unearths darker truths.A full-length novel with 27 chapters and over 92,000 words
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