While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.

"Determined to prove her worth as a budding archaeologist, Ginesse Braxton vows to solve one of the world's greatest mysteries--to find the location of the lost city of Zerzura. Unfortunately, no man dares take the risk of escorting the resolute young scholar across the open desert. But on her way to Egypt, Ginesse engages in a daring deception: She will switch places with Mildred Whimpelhall, who is traveling to meet her fiancé. Years before, cynical...

"Former air force combat rescue officer Special Agent Clayton White now works for the Secret Service performing routine escort missions for politicians. These missions may not be quite as exciting as his time in the military, but Clayton's okay with that. It gives him more time to see his girlfriend, Veronica Hammond--an archeologist who also happens to be the vice president elect's daughter. But Clayton's seemingly manageable new routine takes a...

Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece and Rafi's fiancaêe, Peggy, has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are murderous fanatics known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis, and their search for her will lead into the heart of a conspiracy...

She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day, the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia, an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs, and the British government's secret weapon in WWI in the campaign against the Turks. A brilliant academic, mountaineer, explorer, linguist, politician, and towering literary figure, Gertrude Bell is the most significant unsung heroine of the twentieth century. Alan Gold's meticulously researched novel accurately opens history's...

An archaeologist discovers that a missing ancient decoder is linked to the Knights Templar, and together with the help of a FBI agent, tries to find the stolen artifact before it falls into the wrong hands.