The Kikiloa Chronicles Book One: Love and Entropy
A philosophical time-travel epic with a lyrical heart.
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I am Kikiloa.
I am Mitochondrial Eve, the grandmother of us all. I’m also a part-time philosopher.
I’ve lived a trillion lifetimes, learned to time surf across a million branching realities, and watched entropy erase everything I’ve ever loved. My quest has consumed eons: to stop the chaos that unravels existence and silences every story ever told.
Now, inhabiting my exuberant teenage body in modern San Francisco, I believe I’ve finally found the answer in Hazel—a thoughtful fourteen-year-old who may hold the inexplicable power to mend the fabric of reality itself.
But my desperate attempt to guide her puts us both in the crosshairs of Paha, a dangerously charismatic time surfer who was once my teacher. Paha believes the opposite of everything I fight for: that only a beautiful ending—the final, perfect death of a timeline—gives life its deepest meaning.
As the wave of cosmic consequence builds toward its breaking point, I must counter Paha’s philosophy of transcendent destruction… and confront the truth I’ve been running from across the millennia.
This contemplative, lyrical epic adventure weaves together humanity’s prehistoric birth, speculative Hawaiian mythology, and a San Francisco coming-of-age into the first book of a profound, genre-defying trilogy about what it means to live—and perhaps to love—at the end of time.
Perfect for readers who love the ambition of Cloud Atlas and the mythic voice of Circe, and have always wished for a grown-up, philosophical A Wrinkle in Time.
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