An exciting new historical fantasy romance about a fierce female Robin Hood tasked with breaking into the Garden of Eden to save the mortal world. It’s a spicy and feminist twist on Mesopotamian/ biblical mythology like Terror at the Gates (Scarlett St. Clair), with an unapologetic Middle Eastern heroine in a morally complex adventure like HEIR (Sabbaa Tahir), with the slow-burn, heavy banter romance of Heavenly Bodies (Imani Erriu). 

Keva Alakko, a devout thief who secretly worships the forbidden gods of Eden, steals from the heretics building the War Tower of Babel — a weapon meant to challenge the very deities she reveres. She uses the stolen riches to feed her starving refugee community. When the gods destroy the tower, Keva’s best friend is mortally wounded. With her final breath, she entrusts Keva with a divine tablet and a sacred prophecy, swearing her to deliver them to Eden before the god of death and darkness, Nergal, conquers it. Should she fail, the gods' war would destroy her and everyone she loves. 

Hunted by Nergal and his emissaries, Keva is forced into a precarious alliance with Prince Shamash, the arrogant heir of the heretic regime that murdered her parents. But their uneasy partnership soon burns into something neither of them can ignore, and Keva is left questioning not only her feelings but her very identity, as the tablets dismantle everything Keva’s ever believed about the gods. Each revelation shakes her faith, challenges her convictions, and threatens to unravel who she is. 

When Nergal abducts Keva and traps her in the Underworld, she must face the forbidden truths hidden in the tablets and decide what she is willing to sacrifice: her faith, her heart, or the world itself.