Shadow — John Rickards

In the foothills of the Andes there's a relic of a pre-human civilization, the gateway through which the gods themselves supposedly first walked the Earth. A door to other worlds, other times. A portal through which you can take back everything you've ever lost, or ever had taken from you, if you can master it.

Jack Harker's a washed-up adventure junkie with a knack for languages and getting himself in trouble. But when armed strangers break into his house looking for his parents' old notes on the legendary lost city of Huayacapo, they inadvertently draw him into a secret war that's been raging for a century and a half, a shadow conflict to unearth the past, and to control the future.

It's going to be a long, strange road, and it starts here.

Portal of the Gods is an episodic story of which SHADOW is the first, shortest, instalment.