Denouement is a speculative fiction novel that shifts our fear away from the unknown and replaces it with a look at what is visibly in the light.An alien being seeks refuge from a hostile world and enters a society of benign malevolence and callous good will.

During an inspection dive in 1980 along Israel’s Mediterranean coast off of Kibbutz Hahotrim, Shelley Wachsmann, then Inspector of Antiquities for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (now the Israel Antiquities Authority), discovered artifacts on a section of seabed swept clear of sand by a storm. Scattered around two large stone anchors, the finds consisted primarily of small, broken, or damaged pieces of metal artifacts and ingots.Late Bronze-Age Metal Artifacts ...