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What the Blood Knows
THE WAKING

WHAT THE BLOOD KNOWS

The Waking · $9.99

A former Marine sniper alone in the Oregon woods is being pulled, without warning, into the bodies of his ancestors forty thousand years back — and sometimes he returns holding objects that shouldn't exist. What the past shows him is not just where the species came from, but who he is. Book One of The Waking.

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EPISODE 1

CAN MEMORY BE INHERITED? — THE SCIENCE

A no-spoilers book-club talk on the real epigenetics behind the novel — the Emory mouse-fear study, what inherited memory does and doesn't mean, and where documented science ends and the fiction begins.

EPISODE 2

THE MAN WHO DOESN'T TALK ABOUT IT — COLT CRANE

The character at the center: Colt Crane, a former Marine sniper in the Oregon woods, and what that background means when the impossible arrives. Character and theme, no spoilers.

EPISODE 3

FORTY THOUSAND YEARS BACK — THE SETTING & THE QUESTION

The Ice-Age Southern France of the novel — where our ancestors were fully human — and the question the whole book circles: what do we carry from the people we came from?