In book three: SONS OF STEEL - DARK ENERGY Dr Secta is keeping Black Alice hidden from Oceana Government agents whilst he and his scientist sister Dr Hope work on a means to stabilize his condition. Secta has also refined the time travel process and experiments on targeting specific destinations in time using a particle collider. When Alice is contacted by a mysterious alien called Enki, a former Assyrian god, and given a quest that is critical to saving mankind from certain peril, he needs to use Secta's new technology to travel to Jerusalem in 587 BCE, to find the Ark of the Covenant and prevent it falling into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar II. But Zen Corporation also want the Ark of the Covenant and when the President of Oceana learns of Secta and Alice's secret intentions, he also wants the famous relic. Alice is despatched into the past to find the Ark and becomes embroiled in the politics of the time fighting with the Hebrews. At the same time Zen captures Secta and has him send one of their evil agents, Anu Set, through a wormhole to tail Alice, find the Ark and then kill him.Alice takes on forces of biblical proportions, having to fight evil sorcerers, radical murderous priests and a battle to the death against a twenty-foot monster called the Golem.