An unseen hand guides humanity's destiny. For millennia, the world has been a stage, and Aurelian, the immortal First Shepherd, its sole actor, wearing the masks of gods to suit the age. He is a god who commands the sun, orchestrates empires from the shadows, and believes his unassailable order is the only thing protecting humanity from a cosmic decay known as the Blight. The world sees him as their shield, their golden savior. They are wrong. He is their cage. Now, the cage is cracking. A single, tragic act of celestial calculus—a plane torn from the sky—creates a flaw in Aurelian’s perfect design. Alex Mercer, the unawakened second Conduit, survives a crash no one should have lived through. He is a living paradox, a man plagued by impossible memories and stalked by a relentless, unseen enemy. To Aurelian, he is a cosmic rounding error to be corrected. To the universe, he is a final, desperate hope. As Alex is hunted by a force that can bend reality itself, he must unravel a conspiracy that stretches back to the dawn of civilization. He will be pushed to the brink of madness, branded a fraud, and forced to face a monster born from his own tragedy. But in the fight to save his own life, he will discover that the war is far greater than one man's survival. The Conduit Prophecy is an epic journey of power, fate, and the cost of divine mistakes. It is the story of a man who must become a hero in a world that already has a god. And in the final, shocking twist, he will learn that his greatest enemy may be his only hope in a war for the very survival of the cosmos.