After the exciting events in the first novel, "Zero Moment," and the second, "The Sect," from the "Ibn al-Fauda" series, it's imperative to learn more about this unknown hero. What's his story? Where is he from? And how did he become the man capable of manipulating others in this way?

To understand him well, we must know his history, not just from his birth, but even a hundred years before that and more. This is what we discover in this novel.

Between pharaonic curses and Turkish-Arab origins, a dangerous secret that men sacrificed their lives decades ago to preserve, a story of violence and madness is born that creates an exceptional case.

In this world, beginnings determine your fate, and often, heroes are created from extremely strange beginnings: a mixture of cruelty, pain, and loss.

Don't worry about who you were or who you are today; what matters is who you will be tomorrow.

This novel, although part of the Son of Chaos series, is not set in the same place as many of the series' events, nor even in its time. Rather, it takes place far back in time, on an imaginary timeline, where the beginning, which was inevitable to create its hero, is a moment in the fabric of time that we cannot ignore.

So if you're a fan of Baybars' character in The Zero Moment and are eager to learn the rest of his story in The Baybars Moment, the conclusion of this series, well, my friend, you have the right to know who he is. To truly understand a person, you must know his history, which began decades before his birth.

Beginnings determine your fate, whether you like it or not. What's gone is not dead, and you have every right to know the reasons that made you who you are today, even those that began a hundred years or more before your birth.

***Author's Note***

No, I wasn't asleep last night in a rare moment of peace, nor did that voice inside me come to me, commanding me to get up and write a new novel. I'm not ignorant of who this person inside me is, using me to write novels whose content and events I know nothing about. In fact, I think I've gotten to know him well.

There's no longer any need for all this excitement and mystery between us.

The relationship has truly strengthened, and two previous novels are enough to bypass all the boring protocols.

A file titled "Zainab's Curse" was prepared before the completion of "The Sect," the second novel in this series. Although I didn't know what he intended to write, and I still don't know what he wants, I have come to trust him completely. I know for certain that, despite my current emptiness of ideas or events that could be written, I will wake up tomorrow morning to find a torrent of them pouring out of my mind.

But let me tell you what my intuition tells me...

It's as if it's telling its story through my own words.

-Ahmed A. Al-Khalil -

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To all those who are introverted, isolated, and alienated from their communities

To all those who are considered insane by those around them

You are the ones who make the difference

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"Insane people are just people who live and think in a way that contradicts the collective mind of their surroundings, which are filled with people they consider insane."

- The Zero Moment

"If all your painful and frightening experiences pass without you being able to convey them to others, then they weren't so. Pain is the first thing that exists in a human being: the ability to influence."

- The Sect

"The memory thief visited me, offering me the temptations of contracts. He would take all my painful memories, then leave me a mass of happiness and joy. I was about to accept his offer, except that at the last moment, I remembered you."

- The Curse of Zainab