The Cube Chronicles A 15-book time-travel adventure

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All fifteen Cube Chronicles, in reading order. Each is a complete adventure to a real ancient civilization — but the family's story is richest read start to finish.

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The Fire, The Threshold, and The Stranger at the Door

Ancient Anatolian highlands (a Hittite-inspired mountain pass and guest-hall) and the Carver family's home in the Carolinas · ancient-anatolia-bronze-age

A doorway of fire calls the Carver children into the coldest crossing yet — a mountain country where a law older than kings commands every household to feed, warm, and shelter the stranger at the door, even their enemy, and where a fire has burned unbroken for a thousand years so that no traveler ever arrives to a house that has stopped waiting for them.
  1. Book 1: The Shed, The Cube, and The Sands of Time — Egypt
  2. Book 2: The Compass, The Coast, and The Edge of the World — Ancient Greece, Attica
  3. Book 3: The River, The Seal, and The Language of Silence — Indus Valley (modern-day Pakistan and northwest India)
  4. Book 4: The Knot, The Flame, and The Bones That Speak — Ancient China (Yellow River highlands)
  5. Book 5: The Shore, The Flame, and The Shape of Water — Ancient Japan
  6. Book 6: The River, The Wheel, and The City of the Moon — Mesopotamia (the Tigris-Euphrates river delta, ancient Sumer, modern-day Iraq)
  7. Book 7: The Rope, The Ridge, and The Roof of the World — South America (Andean highlands, ancient Inca-era civilization)
  8. Book 8: The Seed, The Soil, and The Cities Beneath the Green — Ancient Amazon rainforest, South America
  9. Book 9: The Rain, The Cedar, and The Rivers of Silver — Ancient Pacific Northwest Coast (an Indigenous salmon-culture society)
  10. Book 10: The Fire, The Threshold, and The Stranger at the Door — Ancient Anatolian highlands (a Hittite-inspired mountain pass and guest-hall) and the Carver family's home in the Carolinas
  11. Book 11: The Break, The Gold, and The Palace That Rose Again — Ancient Minoan Crete (Aegean)
  12. Book 12: The Song, The Stars, and The Country That Remembers — Ancient Australia (Aboriginal songline country)
  13. Book 13: The Canoe, The Compass, and The Shore Beyond the Sky — Ancient Polynesia / the deep Pacific
  14. Book 14: The Crossroads, The Weave, and The Road of All Roads — Central Asia (ancient Silk Road)
  15. Book 15: The Center, The Maker, and The Road That Was Always Home — Rural Carolina, USA, and a symbolic gathering-place reached through the traveling cube — not a historical era but the culmination of the family's travels across many lands and ages