A Cass and Ari Adventure Book 3

Some secrets deserve to remain hidden, and others revealed. Ari and Cass must choose wisely. 

When a colleague is murdered in Aswan, famed archaeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell discovers the man had found a scroll that may reveal Cleopatra’s elusive final resting place. As Cass pursues the truth on Philae Island, one that may forever change historical understanding of the Last Pharaoh’s ultimate fate, dangerous rivals close in and the Nile’s annual flood looms.

Across the world, her partner, Ari Morgan, returns home to North Carolina to rescue a family friend trapped in a nursing home that isn’t what it seems, fending off dangerous bureaucratic flood waters of her own.

Two investigations—one ancient, one urgent—pull Cass and Ari into a race against time, testing their courage, loyalty, and the bond that holds them together.

Zayla was just an infant noxling when her bitterroot offshoot was destroyed by a terrible suncreature. No one from her home survived. And from what she knows of her Nemora history, she shouldn’t be alive either.

But she is. There’s a constant hum inside her, a shaking that grows more violent and painful each time she harnesses her crafting to do her bidding. Nature is clearly trying to finish the job the suncreature started.

Her only hope is to finish walking the path. When she completes this sacred rite of passage, she'll never need to use her crafting again. She has to get to Ratnaa Grove, her final stop, and the quickest way there is through the deadly Cinder Forest. With the help of her sibling Oryn and an alluring musician named Shadre who they met along the way, Zayla fends off bloodthirsty suncreatures and discovers an invasion of evil sun goddess worshippers bent on razing the Groves.

As she struggles to survive, betrayal lurks on every side, and her crafting demands a higher price than even she expected. But the fate of the Nemora Groves, and the world as she knows it, might just lie within her.

Freelance pilot and treasure hunter Helen Highwater finds herself in too deep when she agrees to retrieve an ancient mask from a long-forgotten temple. Suddenly her employers are trying to kill her and silence her forever. She enlists the aid of Abigail Dawson, a prim English historian and archaeologist whose dreams of fieldwork have run aground in the backrooms of an old museum. Together they must race against time and Helen’s pursuers to decode the mystery of the mask and discover a terrifying secret that has lain dormant for centuries.