He uncovered a buried civilization.
They uncovered him.

Dr. Billy Reuben was supposed to be the future of archaeology—brilliant, abrasive, and dangerously convinced that modern history is missing something vast. His research into the lost civilization of Tartaria threatens to rewrite the past itself.

Then the photos surface.

A private life he thought safely compartmentalized becomes public spectacle overnight, and Billy’s reputation collapses. Grants vanish. Allies disappear. Doors close. Worse, unfamiliar eyes begin to linger where they shouldn’t.

With nowhere left to turn, Billy accepts an offer he doesn’t fully trust: an expedition beneath the Antarctic ice, funded by a shadowy international financier, to prove that Tartaria didn’t simply vanish—it went underground.

Joining him is Eleanor, a woman whose involvement in his disgrace is impossible to untangle. She knows too much. Reacts too fast. And when everything goes wrong, she chooses to flee with Billy instead of walking away clean.

Deep below the ice lies Agartha—a hidden city sustained by a white light that offers hope at a terrible cost. Beyond it waits something worse: a war without end, a door that listens, and a masked king who feeds on indulgence, certainty, and decay.

As ancient systems awaken and modern loyalties fracture, Billy learns too late that some discoveries don’t want to be understood. They want to be used.

The Mud Flood of Tartaria is the first volume in The Agartha Affair, a fast-moving pulp adventure of forbidden archaeology, compromised heroes, and cosmic forces that reward obsession—and punish restraint.

Some truths were buried for a reason.
Not all of them stayed buried.