The Nazca were fearful of their new religious leader; so fearful, in fact, that Coetz went about his business with little consideration of his human followers. The few times that anyone dared speak up ended quickly with the death of everyone involved. Such are the stories of the Clerques; Ligon, Plantru, Coetz, Varin and Bolac. For almost 5,000 years they have lived on our planet, causing the destruction of many of our greatest civilizations, and the deaths of untold thousands. Now, in the 21st century, a new threat from these invaders has arisen, a threat that promises the extinction of mankind. The first installment of the A.O. 1.0.0.0.0.0 trilogy, Bloodlines introduces the reader to the Pentagram Nexus, a group of five humans brought together after almost five thousand years to confront the Clerques, a cadre of synthetic beings sent by the ruthless Imperium to prepare Earth and the human race for enslavement or extinction. With alternative explanations for past historical events, including Vlad Dracul, the Nazca of Peru, the Mayan civilization of southern Mexico and the Anasazzi of the U.S. Four Corners area, Bloodlines takes the reader from those ancient worlds to the present, where the Nexus, with the help of a band of otherworld rebels, prepares to confront the extermination of the human race; and, then into a darkly shrouded future when their success or failure will become all too evident on December 21, 2012, the day that, according to the Mayan calendar, time will end.