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A sister world to ours; an ancient race that no longer gives birth to daughters; the struggle of a woman and her adopted grandfather to find their way home. Set around twenty years in our future, Beyond Detection picks up the story surrounding Bob Wilson about three years after the close of The Tinker God. Bob and his adopted granddaughter Thayla disappeared while flying to Washington to seek medical treatment for her recurring headaches and blackouts. They found themselves on a world inhabited by a race known as the Ben Elohim. This ancient race relied on women, secretly taken from our world, to propagate their species. They had selected Thayla to wed one of their leaders, a healer named Rapha, and Bob was included by mistake. Rapha chose Thayla because she was dying. He thought that if he healed her, the combination of her gratitude and his charm would lead to a happy union.
He was wrong. Thayla only wanted to return to her husband Jesse and their beautiful daughter Moira--Bob's great granddaughter.
Unable to escape, Thayla built friendships within the house of her captor. She tried to delay her forced marriage to give Bob time to find a way to get them home, and tried to persuade her captors that their plans for her were evil. Meanwhile, Bob set off on an adventure to understand what had happened to this world, and how to bend their ancient technologies to serve his purpose. He formed an alliance with the local humans and set off the inevitable battle for domination of the planet between the Ben Elohim and the humans they considered their inferiors.
The beings around which Beyond Detection was written, the Ben Elohim, are not original to this story; there is a basis for them in some of the oldest Hebrew writings. The book of Genesis mentions them, calling their children the Nephilim and Rephaim, but very little is written about them other than that they were giants when compared to ancestors. They were said to be mighty warriors, and, as Bob and Thayla discovered, they took wives as they chose from the daughters of men.
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