Blood Diamond in My Mother's House


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She hates diamonds. Then why’s she hunting the world’s most valuable one? Aria Raith, The Maldives. Oceanographer Aria Raith is the underworld’s best treasure hunter, a woman who finds rare gems in the oceans’ museum of pirate hordes. It’s one way to forget a sister who went missing thirteen years ago. Contracted to find the most extraordinary treasure in history, she’s finally found the gems she’s been looking for, and it’s time to cash in. Jave Lincoln, Washington DC. He’s the government’s best-kept secret and biggest problem. Harbouring a past that haunts him, he leaves home to serve his country. In India, no one will ask any questions. When a call from Aria’s father, British High Commissioner to India, requires Aria’s expertise to recover the much-contested Koh-i-Noor diamond that disappears during a special exhibition in Paris, Aria quickly learns that the diamond hides secrets more profound than her own and is a stone the wrong kind of people will kill for. Finding an unsuspecting ally in Jave, Aria must race against the clock to unravel clues a century-old diary hides. Clues and perhaps answers pointing to what happened to her sister. A breathless sprint across continents, The Koh-i-Noor Conspiracy is a gripping tale of intrigue and romps around the world at a thrilling pace.




Breaking the Code


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Jewel Carlone, an Olympian, is the answer to a problem science created. After a frightening accident forces Jewel to change careers, she becomes a sought-after photographer. When a routine call for a once-in-a-lifetime gig takes her to Austria, what’s the worst that can happen? Leal Trelles, is a gifted, yet mysterious disease detective, with a past no doctor is allowed to have. When a powerful government agency discovers Leal is the only one who can make sense of the epidemic problem, Leal becomes the target of their threats. Leal can’t resist the chance to see if they’re right about Jewel’s code. When an attempt at extracting the DNA sample goes horribly wrong, Jewel is at the mercy of Leal’s research and a dangerous mission. Unprepared for the effect Jewel has on him, Leal faces the most testing dilemma of his life. Can he sacrifice Jewel’s life against a ticking clock for the sake of many? Smart and sophisticated, with a globe-trotting plot that will expose you to the brink of a world where out-of-control tech has changed the boundaries, The Code Beneath Her Skin is the first in The Shadow Files thriller novels. Strap in for an adrenaline-filled, page-turning adventure.




The Decrypter and the Mind Hacker


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Calla Cress took down the world’s most dangerous man. She made one mistake, she let him live. When a billionaire, once the British Secret Service’s most brilliant code breaker, uses his vast resources to lure the world’s top minds into his prison cell, they leave in a coma, and seconds later, a virus attacks government systems. An explosion rips through a guarded safe house in Colorado. British Museum curator turned undercover government agent Calla Cress wakes up halfway across the world at the whim of a powerful, unidentified organization demanding she produces the whereabouts of a missing MI6 agent who can disarm the billionaire’s hacks. Powerful people are prepared to kill to obtain the cryptic secret the agent kept. Now the only person who can unpick the billionaire’s hacks is a stranger who’s been missing for 30 years and whose cryptic secrets may prove fatal to his cause. With only a handful of clues left in a mysterious sixteenth-century anagram encrypted with a sequence of codes, Calla, NSA security advisor Nash Shields and tech entrepreneur Jack Kleve are thrust in a dangerous race across the globe. Calla realizes she has to complete a mission that will shape the world’s fate and is led back in time. With each haunting revelation, they dodge sniper bullets and soon realize the key to disarming the hacks comes at an astonishing price. Calla needs to find the person, once a part of the secret service, a stranger who may just be someone who’s known Calla all her life. Thrilling, The Decrypter and the Mind Hacker is a heart-stopping, high-paced adventure taking readers from the sunlit streets of modern-day Greece to the shadowy mountains of Colorado. The Decrypter and the Mind Hacker is a must-read for Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and Robert Ludlum fans. It is book 2 in the Calla Cress Thriller Series. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series: ★★★★★ “Gripping read!” ★★★★★ “Absolutely brilliant storyline. After reading book one I just had to get into book two.” ★★★★★"Takes you on a ride and refuses to let you off until you reach the very end." ★★★★★"A brilliant read! I recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery, suspense, thrillers, or action novels. The detail is astounding! The historic references, location descriptions, references to technology, cryptography....this author really knows her stuff." ★★★★★"An action-packed adventure, techno-thriller across several continents like a Jason Bourne or James Bond movie, but with an actual storyline!" ★★★★★"Brilliantly written. I loved the very descriptive side, which was a good way of visualizing and getting to terms with each new place, as the action takes place in several different countries." Read less




The Decrypter and Beale Ciphers


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200 years ago, Thomas J. Beale hid a treasure and wrote a cipher that has been unbreakable until today…that is until Calla Cress starts to read it. Now, some secrets are too dangerous to know. Nursing a past loss and failure, artifacts handler, codebreaker, and government agent, Calla Cress is framed for the disappearance and murder of the ISTF spy agency’s Chief of technology and science, her best friend, Jack Kleve. All is not as it seems. When she’s discredited and forced on the run, she travels to the African continent to find secrets her murdered friend wanted hidden, only to discover someone very dangerous betrayed him and is out for blood. Now she must follow Jack’s clues and an uncertain trail that leads her deeper into the dark territories of a vengeful enemy who will unleash hell on Earth, and has a dangerous plan for the Beale Ciphers unless she stops him. And wait, all before her government finds and prosecutes her. What readers say about the Calla Cress, Decrypter series: “Takes you on a ride and refuses to let you off until you reach the very end.” “A brilliant read! I recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery, suspense, thrillers, or action novels. The detail is astounding! The historical references, location descriptions, references to technology, cryptography… this author really knows her stuff.” “An action-packed adventure, technothrillers across several continents like a Jason Bourne or James Bond movie, but with an actual storyline!” “Brilliantly written. I loved the very descriptive side, which was a good way of visualizing and getting to terms with each new place, as the action takes place in several different countries.”




The Decrypter: Secret of the Lost Manuscript


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In Renaissance Venice, a manuscript in an unknown language was left in a confessional booth in Saint Marks’ Basillica. No one has cracked the code in centuries. Nearly eight hundred years later, ISTF, a covert government organization, is about to decrypt the manuscript’s explosive secret. London, the present. When her parents left her in a foster home as an infant, something in Calla Cress broke. An expert in ancient symbols, and a master code breaker, Calla should consider herself lucky. Most twenty-eight-year-olds don’t land big dream jobs at the British Museum or decipher secret codes for the government. Now she’s asked to decipher a cryptic Renaissance manuscript at an international museum in Berlin. When the manuscript is stolen, Calla, NSA agent Nash Shields and tech entrepreneur Jack Kleve race to decode the mystery of its origin—before it’s too late. Calla uncovers an ancient secret and suspects that there’s more to her parents’ disappearance than meets the eye. Armed with clues to the manuscript’s true intent, what she discovers further puts her in the crosshairs of an enemy’s gunfire. At every turn, Calla is drawn deep into an ancient web of conspiracies and secrets that may have been dormant for centuries. Ancient history meets cutting-edge high tech in an action-packed, smart thriller with a unique quest guaranteed to keep you guessing—and sticking with characters after you finish reading. If you like Steve Berry, James Bond with a dash of The Matrix you'll find this thriller hard to put down. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series and Calla Cress. ★★★★★ “An action-packed techno-thriller that reveals a dark future where hacking occurs at the speed of thought.” ★★★★★ “A fast-paced thriller with twists and turns that will hopefully keep you up well past your bedtime.” ★★★★★ “A story of technology, hacking, and codes.” ★★★★★ “In a race against time, Calla and her team must decipher history’s greatest anagram.” ★★★★★ “Delivers a thrilling mystery for fans of Dan Brown.”




The Decrypter and The Pythagoras Clause


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***A female James Bond with a Matrix twist.*** ***Join thousands who have devoured the dramatic action-adventure thrillers. *** Knowledge is everything until …everything is the last thing you need to know. British Museum curator turned secret agent Calla Cress didn’t want to know the future. Heck, the future can wait, but not when it’s wiped clean her present. Horoscope predictions run by a dangerous app start to come true. More people download the app only to fall into a mysterious coma. When the app makes an alarming prediction about Calla’s future, and a malicious old enemy uses her past to control the most unimaginable, powerful technology in the world, Calla is at a standstill. Forced to confront a dark part of herself she thought she’d dealt with, Calla must disarm the app before it makes an alarming global prediction. But what if the app’s technology was created centuries ago by a student of Pythagoras, and only they can deactivate the app? In this fast-paced techno-thriller, packed with hairbreadth escapes and international espionage, from Turkey’s shores to the allure of Havana comes a danger with an alarming global government coverup. The Decrypter: The Pythagoras Clause is Book 5 in the Calla Cress Technothriller series but can be read as a stand-alone story. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series and Calla Cress. ★★★★★ "Takes you on a ride and refuses to let you off until you reach the very end." ★★★★★ "A brilliant read! I recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery, suspense, thrillers or action novels. The detail is astounding! The historic references, location descriptions, references to technology, cryptography....this author really knows her stuff." ★★★★★ "An action-packed adventure, technothriller across several continents like a Jason Bourne or James Bond movie, but with an actual storyline!" ★★★★★ "Brilliantly written. I loved the very descriptive side, which was a good way of visualizing and getting to terms with each new place, as the action takes place in several different countries."




The Decrypter: Digital Eyes Only


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The NSA, the British government, and a group of darknet hackers are after one of the most dangerous lists ever created—a list that, if it falls into the wrong hands, will be used against them all. When the British prime minister's private accounts are hacked, museum curator-turned-cyber-defense agent Calla Cress is called on to decrypt a mysterious cipher left in the prime minister's home. Soon a series of encrypted ciphers surfaces on a darknet site, the Vault, whose inception is steeped in the mysterious history of the Maltese Knights. As Calla gets closer to not only unearthing the Vault's interlaced web of secrets but also discovering the identities of the darknet masters, she learns that technologies aren’t the only thing they intend to auction. The Decrypter: Digital Eyes Only is Book 3 in the Calla Cress Technothriller series but can be read as a stand-alone story. What readers are saying about The Decrypter series and Calla Cress: ★★★★★ “Full of twists and excitement to the last page.” ★★★★★ “Gripping read!” ★★★★★ “Absolutely brilliant storyline.” ★★★★★ “Engaging and well-plotted with a pace that keeps you reading long into the night. The characters are fun to follow and the protagonist, Calla, is a great mix of smart, talented, and vulnerable.” ★★★★★ “An amazing read! It was the perfect balance of technology, romance, and suspense. I wasn't bored for one second; I couldn't put it down!” ★★★★★ “Impossible to predict where the story will lead.”




The Decrypter and The Storm's Eye


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An international team of scientists is sent to an abandoned island to investigate a mysterious technology, only to face a terrifying discovery that defies imagination. Calla Cress is charged with protecting Britain’s national treasures from cyber and science threats. But her latest assignment takes her down an unexpected path. Something strange is happening in the skies and the US and British governments have taken notice – something that may be connected to another mystery, one that was classified thirty-five years ago: An abandoned research facility on an uninhabited island is somehow controlling the weather. But no one's there…yet something inexplicable is running within its walls, and Calla herself will soon be forced to confront her darkest self. This fast-paced cyber-thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat as you race through its pages for answers about this uncanny technology and its origins that are as shocking as they are chilling! The Decrypter: The Storm’s Eye is Book 4 in the Calla Cress Technothriller series but can be read as a stand-alone story. What readers are saying about The Decrypter Series and Calla Cress: ★★★★★ “Fast-moving, exciting look at the possibilities of technology, peppered with just the right amount of science. I honestly couldn't put the book down.” ★★★★★ “Has everything I look for in a good read: plot, characters, and pace.” ★★★★★ “An imaginative thriller with a great plot and unforgettable characters.”




From SAS to Blood Diamond Wars


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Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt to stand up to the Spartans on land as part of an alliance he was instrumental in bringing together. Although this led to defeat at the Battle of Mantinea in 418 BC, his prestige remained high. He was also a prime mover in Athens' next big strategic gambit, the Sicilian Expedition of 415 BC, for which he was elected as one of the leaders. Shortly after arrival in Sicily, however, he was recalled to face charges of sacrilege allegedly committed during his pre-expedition reveling. Jumping ship on the return journey, he defected to the Spartans.Alcibiades soon ingratiated himself with the Spartans, encouraging them to aid the Sicilians (ultimately resulting in the utter destruction of the Athenian expedition) and to keep year-round pressure on the Athenians. He then seems to have overstepped the bounds of hospitality by sleeping with the Spartan queen and was soon on the run again. He then played a devious and dangerous game of shifting loyalties between Sparta, Athens and Persia. He had a hand in engineering the overthrow of democracy at Athens in favor of an oligarchy, which allowed him to return from exile, though he then opposed the increasingly-extreme excesses of that regime. For a time he looked to have restored Athens' fortunes in the war, but went into exile again after being held responsible for the defeat of one of his subordinates in a naval battle. This time he took refuge with the Persians, but as they were now allied to the Spartans, the cuckolded King Agis of Sparta was able to arrange his assassination by Persian agents.There has been no full length biography of this colorful and important character for twenty years. Professor Rhodes brings the authority of an internationally recognized expert in the field, ensuring that this will be a truly significant addition to the literature on Classical Greece.




The Ninja Stole my Nose


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This is a Ninja story filled with action, espionage, fights, ancient maps, secret tunnels, and hidden underground bunkers. Set against the backdrop of glamorous ritzy Palm Springs, the Uber Rich have painful guilty secrets they bring to Dr. Ner Sloviak, a therapist. Dr. Sloviak immigrated from Hungary as a teenager to help run her aunt's ultra exclusive beauty spa for the rich. Born under the sun of Necisis at precisely 2:34am, unbeknownst to her she is the light star for 20,000 Ninjas.