An ancient power. A desperate quest. The clock is ticking.When psychologist and religious expert Dr. Morgan Sierra's sister and niece are kidnapped, she's thrust into a deadly race against time to find twelve ancient stones that could unleash unimaginable power. With only days until Pentecost and the kidnapper's deadline, Morgan must use all her knowledge and resources to track down the artifacts.She's not alone in the hunt. Jake Timber, an enigmatic agent ...

Escape into three ARKANE adventures …STONE OF FIRE: An ancient power. A desperate quest. The clock is ticking.When psychologist and religious expert Dr. Morgan Sierra's sister and niece are kidnapped, she's thrust into a deadly race against time to find twelve ancient stones that could unleash unimaginable power. With only days until Pentecost and the kidnapper's deadline, Morgan must use all her knowledge and resources to track down the ar...

Includes three ARKANE action-adventure thrillers.ONE DAY IN BUDAPESTNationalistic fervor. Genocidal violence. The first time, the world went to war. This time, the world could end.When a priest is murdered and one of the holiest relics of Christendom stolen, the ultra-nationalist Eröszak group is ready.Fanning flames of hatred into a firestorm of anti-Semitic violence the likes of which haven’t been seen since the d...

Any wish can be granted: money, power… even death itself can be beaten back. All it takes is the blood of an angel.When a woman is tortured, hung from a cross, and burned alive in the center of New York City, Jake Timber is already on his way.Tasked with locating an extremist group interested in a recently discovered relic, the Cloisters Cross, Jake expected trouble. After all, as one of the top agents of ARKANE, the secret organization entrusted with prote...

Two billion people are about to die… and they’re the lucky ones.When a man in a hospital gown jumps to his death from the Western Wall in Israel, the authorities think it’s just another victim of Jerusalem Syndrome: a religious psychosis triggered by a visit to the holy city.But when a second victim ritually disembowels himself, it’s the sign of much worse to come. Thanatos — a fanatical group dedicated to the destruction of the world — is on the move again...

Nationalistic fervor. Genocidal violence. The first time, the world went to war. This time, the world could end.When a priest is murdered and one of the holiest relics of Christendom stolen, the ultra-nationalist Eröszak group is ready.Fanning flames of hatred into a firestorm of anti-Semitic violence the likes of which haven’t been seen since the darkest days of World War II, Eröszak’s leader has the perfect plan to turn Hungary — and later, the world — in...

She has been called many things: murderer, madwoman, monster. She will become only one thing: a god.The Crone. A woman of legend, a creature of blood. A Valkyrie. She has tortured, murdered, maimed — performing all the rituals needed to call forth the power of Odin himself and summon Ragnarok. She just needs one more thing: the staff of Skara Brae, and her plans will be fulfilled.But the staff is already in the hands of Morgan Sierra. An agent of ARKANE, th...

Today is the beginning, and tonight is the end…A Babylonian tomb filled with the skeletons of snakes. Seven seals scattered around the world. A young woman, Lilith, who speaks in tongues before covering herself with living serpents. The Brotherhood of the Serpent sees it all, and knows the time of their greatest prophecy — set to occur under a pattern of stars that only align once every four thousand years — is at hand.Soon the leader of the Brotherhood — S...

It is the seat of judgment. The pinnacle of holiness. It is the Ark of the Covenant… and it’s the most dangerous weapon in existence.A group of fanatics wearing masks of Egypt’s gods slaughter the curator of Cairo’s most famous museum. A cleaner in Washington, DC, discovers a decapitated head on top of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant. And someone is sharing videos of the deaths with extremists all over the world.It’s a job too big — and too strange — f...

“I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” — Bhagavad GitaLondon. A street cleaner walks into the middle of Trafalgar Square and blows himself up. No mere act of terrorism. The explosion rips open a crater to reveal the underground headquarters of ARKANE — the ultra-secret British agency tasked with investigating the supernatural.Within moments, armed commandos rappel into the breach, blow open ARKANE’s vault, and steal a single box containing an ancient rel...

A sunken city. A lost goddess … and the woman who longs to find her.Lara is part of a dive team exploring the sunken city of Thonis-Heraklion off the north coast of Egypt. When a storm threatens the site, there's only time for one last dive and Lara is determined to be on it – even if it means diving with the man who threatened her this summer.Because The Dark Queen is down there and Lara intends to find her before it's too late ...Sink beneath ...

Three short stories inspired by Dante’s Inferno, linked by a book of human skin passed down through generations.Sins of the FleshWhen the tortured and mutilated corpse of a wealthy author is discovered, the police officer sent to investigate finds a curious diary amongst the occult objects at the scene. Will he uncover the author’s secret at the ruined chapel, and is he willing to pay the price that it demands?Sins of Treachery...