First published 2019
Professor Challenger stands before the Royal Geographical Society, defending his outrageous claim that dinosaurs still roam a remote plateau in South America. The scientific establishment mocks him, but journalist Edward Malone joins the expedition to prove his courage to the woman he loves. Alongside big game hunter Lord John Roxton and rival scientist Professor Summerlee, they venture into the Amazon basin. The team scales an isolated mesa where time stopped millions of years ago. Pterodactyls circle overhead while iguanodons graze in primeval forests. The explorers face savage ape-men, encounter living fossils, and struggle to survive in a world that evolution forgot. Cut off from civilization on their sky-high prison, they must find a way home while dodging the claws and teeth of creatures that should be extinct. Malone discovers that proving himself means more than winning love.
Genres: science-fiction, historical-fiction, adventure, fantasy
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, lost-world
Setting: Amazon Basin, Royal Geographical Society, South America
Period: 19th-century
231 pages · Paperback · Independently published