Return to the Source is a literary speculative novel that spans prehistory and cosmology, as God confronts the catastrophic flaw hidden within her own creation.
In the beginning, God created the universe—and on the seventh day, Earth. But perfection bred predictability, so to better understand herself, she seeded the planet with mirror organisms, embedding her own flaws and virtues within them. Through these creatures, she hoped to explore life’s dualities and glimpse truths she could not see alone.
As ages passed, Homo sapiens rose to dominance, bending rivers, forests, and skies to their will. What God once called beauty began to fracture. Her mirrors no longer reflected balance; they scarred the very world that bore them. Watching her children desecrate Earth, she found herself caught between two choices: intervene and restore balance, or step back and allow humanity to face the consequences of its own ambition.
At 120,000 words, the novel is written for young adult and adult readers drawn to mythic and philosophical fiction—stories where theology, ecology, and imagination collide. Though fantastical, it is grounded in ecological truth and human history, reframing Genesis as an unfinished story in which the fate of Earth—and of God herself—hangs on what humanity chooses next.
For readers of The Overstory, The Broken Earth trilogy, and Annihilation, Return to the Source offers a mythic ecological epic where survival, conscience, and creation itself collide.
THE BOOK OF DOMINATUS — A THREE-PART CYCLE
BOOK I — The Lost World of Mythoamphibia
The Fall.
BOOK II — Return to the Source
The Origin. (A Prequel)
BOOK III — King Amphibia’s Rise
The Reckoning.
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• Creation Learns to Endure Its Own Design
• Epoch: From the birth of the multiverse to the fall of its makers
• Axis: The gods confront the flaw in the first strike of the Celestial Flint—both the spark of Creation and the scar of imperfection.
• Creation’s lesson: Perfection was never the goal. Through flaw, decay, and defiance, creation discovers continuity—the capacity to evolve beyond its architects. When the divine loses faith, life itself becomes the teacher, and the universe learns to care by surviving its own creators.