The apocalypse has a bulldog problem. For twelve thousand years, something has been knocking humanity down every time it tries to stand. Rise, remember, reach-then the flood comes. The reset. The scattering. It's happened so many times no one even remembers it's happening.

But this time, there's Baloo.

An ancient, mystical, impossibly stubborn English bulldog who accepts his fate with resignation and leans in to hold the world together. Now he's leading seventeen-year-old Alex Constantino and Esther Callais toward the Great Pyramid of Giza with a bronze wheel that could transcend humanity or destroy it. They have 136 days before the stars align and the window closes forever. An immortal conspiracy is hunting them across continents.

And Baloo isn't leaving them. Not for floods, not for death, not for anything.

Because bulldogs are very, very good at not letting go.