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Something connects the oldest sacred sites on earth.
Delphi. Göbekli Tepe. The Hypogeum in Malta. The ghats of Varanasi. Across six continents, separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles, civilizations that never had contact with each other built their most important structures on the same kinds of ground. Fault lines. Volcanic substrates. Aquifer discharge points. Limestone karst with measurable acoustic anomalies.

My novel, The Places That Speak, follows Dr. Marcus Navarro — an archaeologist and comparative religion scholar with no funding and deteriorating health — as he investigates this pattern across sixteen sites. The book is structured as his field journal: margin notes where his composure cracks and struck-through passages where the science fails. The scholarship is real. The geology is real. The sites are real. What happens at them might be.

If you’re new and want a taste of the book, start with here:

Before the Journal — How Marcus falls asleep in a Maltese tomb and wakes up with a research program he didn’t ask for. (Free members)

If you want the science behind the story, the Field Dispatches are free:

These are standalone investigations into the real geology, archaeology, and acoustics behind the book. No fiction. No paywall. Start anywhere:

The Temple That Was Tuned — A 5,000-year-old underground temple acoustically engineered to resonate at the frequency that suppresses human language processing. (Free members)
The Valley That Glows — Forty years of instrumented science on anomalous light phenomena in Norway.
The Nazca Lines Might Be a Map of What’s Underground — The world’s most famous desert drawings may have been made for the water beneath the dirt.
The Romans Built the Gates of Hell on a Super Volcano — You’ve probably never heard of Campi Flegrei. That’s the problem.
They Named the God After Mud — What six years of excavation at Pelusium uncovered beneath the ruins.

What members get:

Free — The Map. An interactive map of every site in the investigation — the sixteen Marcus visits and dozens more that share the same geological signatures. Detailed profiles on explored sites. Markers on the ones that haven’t been investigated yet.

The Journal — $7/month. The serialized book. Every chapter of The Places That Speak as it unfolds — Marcus’s field journal entries, margin notes, struck-through passages, the full investigation from Malta to the final site. Plus everything in The Map.

The Expedition — $18/month. Everything in The Journal, plus each chapter read aloud by the author. Audio recordings you can take with you — on a walk, on a commute, on a flight to one of the sites yourself.
Get The Map — free →