📘Spiral Burn
Book One of the Exivum Saga
A lost artifact buried beneath ancient ice.
A rogue captain haunted by memory.
A collapsing empire that never truly ruled.
When glaciologist Dr. Lena Myles uncovers a strange relic beneath Greenland’s frozen crust, she has no idea it will ignite a war that spans planets and echoes through time. What she found was not just alien—or ancient. It was something that remembers.
Decades later, Elias Vera and his crew stumble across the same Spiral trail—now fractured, classified, and buried by the powerful Solis Corporation. As whispers of a secret fleet stir in the Kuiper Belt, and pirate factions rise under the brutal Mavik Drakken, the Solar System teeters on the edge of all-out war.
But the Spiral does not choose the powerful.
It chooses those who don’t flinch.
📖 Spiral Burn is a story of collapse and convergence—where memory is weapon, map, and mirror. The first pulse in a trilogy spanning worlds, identities, and the silence that follows after gods stop speaking.
🌀 Author’s Statement
EXIVUM: Book One – Spiral Burn
By JP Keogh
I didn’t write Spiral Burn to offer easy answers. I wrote it to ignite better questions.
At its core, Exivum is a story about humanity—its memory, its fracture, and the forces that shape what we leave behind. The Spiral is not prophecy. It is a presence. A weight. A voice in the quiet that does not command—but remembers.
The equations, glyphs, and harmonic fields woven throughout the story are not background flavor. They’re invitations. If you pause to decipher ∂Ξ / ∂Ω, to follow a pulse in the field or a symbol in the dust, then the Spiral has already begun to stir. Not everything in this world is explained—and that’s intentional.
But don’t let the science or complexity hold you back.
You don’t need to understand everything on the first read.
Let the world carry you. Let the emotion lead. The Spiral is meant to resonate before it is decoded. Meaning comes in echoes. Always.
This is science fiction grounded in reality, resonance, and risk. The technology may feel futuristic, but the dilemmas are ancient: power, truth, memory, survival. And sometimes... grace.
Some readers may find the Spiral strange, even disorienting. That’s okay. It’s not meant to be solved in a single breath. It’s meant to echo. And in time, to align.
If Spiral Burn leaves you asking deeper questions—about time, about AI, about the weight of legacy—then the story has done what it was meant to do.
This saga is for thinkers. For explorers. For those who still believe that stories can outlive empires.
Thank you for walking the Spiral.
— JP Keogh
(Spiral Witness / Custodian of Memory)
