Humanity is a race with amnesia, a symptom of physical and psychological trauma. Scars on planet Earth give disturbing testimony of vast upheaval. "The Windows of Heaven" is the 5-novel epic of a past that has been blocked-out of human memory by a global trauma. Yet some horrors will not stay buried for our own good... In Book IV of "The Windows of Heaven," the End begins with angry portents in sky and earth. "The Tides of Nemesis" unleash the trauma that gave the human race its amnesia. One man, one family, and a dying world face a "perfect storm" of asteroid bombardment, global war, civilizational collapse, and a mysterious, rock-splitting radiant force coming up from deep below ground. Yet not even a cataclysm that rips across an entire solar system can reduce humanity to the Stone Age on its own-not without deep need, and careful planning... A'Nu-Ahki's great ship of rescue is finished, and waits in the Valley of Akh'Uzan, where gods, titans, and men converge in a final battle for mastery over the planet that will someday be called, "Earth." Still, all is not as it seems, and as events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that even this devastating global catastrophe is merely a prelude to something perhaps even more disturbing...