Paleopeople - The Land of Aeolia is the first of a trilogy in the works.

When a renowned archaeologist goes missing in Tierra del Fuego, his adopted sixteen year old son is entrusted with an ancient map, a thick manuscript entitled The Land of Aeolia, and a book so minuscule it can only be read with the aid of a microscope. After the ransacking of their beach house in Brazil and the torture and murder of one his father’s closest confidants, William is sure that his father is in serious danger. He sets off with Hakim, his father’s longtime partner, on an overland journey to the southern tip of South America to find Big Bill.

During the journey, William begins reading the manuscript, certain that his father has left some clue to his whereabouts in the typewritten pages, perhaps in the map. What he reads stuns him. The manuscript is clearly his father’s translation of the tiny book, an impressive feat given the book’s alien language, but it’s the story that is being told that truly amazes William - a story that, if true, would shake the pillars of both science and religion. 

The Land of Aeolia is the story of the Paleopeople, a civilization of tiny people living deep underground in caves and tunnels; a race that reside in fossils, farm mushroom trees, and ride spiders to move about. The mystery of the source of the light that sustains them is the principal cause of conflict among the Paleopeople. To the Lumen Society, the light is provided by the Master. To the Academy of Light, the source of the light is not divine; it is simply not yet explained. With Lumen forces on the verge of destroying the Academy, Beni Corta sets out through Worm Tunnel to the Land of Aeolia to find his long lost father, hoping to devise a means to stem the Lumen menace.

William soon realizes that both he and Beni are searching for their fathers, and that a conspiracy of enemies are fanatically devoted to keeping them from that goal - that the thread between his challenges and Beni’s are remarkably similar, as if the fate of one will be the fate of the other.