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With daring and ingenuity, Phileas Fogg has earned the respect and friendship of the enigmatic Captain Nemo and completed his search for Professor Aronnax. But an almost unbelievable discovery keeps him on board the submarine Nautilus: at the bottom of the sea, the crew comes across the remains of the legendary city of Atlantis. Together with Nemo and Aronnax, Phileas Fogg ventures into the ruins, where sunken treasures, enchanted palaces and unspeakable horrors await the adventurers.

Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.

Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.

In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.

It is estimated that the mythical city of Atlantis was swept away by a tsunami in 9600 BC, vanquished from existence—but recent findings of ancient maps, monuments, and submerged artifacts indicate that the Lost Kingdom may in fact have existed. The recent discovery of mummies, an underwater Stonehenge, monoliths, ancient drawings, and much, much more could provide confirmation of one of mankind’s oldest mysteries.

Felicity discovers the "Atlantis stone" while scuba diving on the southeast coast of Australia in a treacherous area known as "the ship's graveyard". Her diving is part of her research into the fabled "mahogany ship", a wreck sighted on the beach by early White Australians. She meets Benjamin as a result of her love of diving. He is an indigenous Australian, but past traumas have caused him to disown his aboriginal heritage.