Chapter Eight
Nisa was so exhausted that by the time night fell, she collapsed in her cot, fell straight to sleep, and didn’t wake until way after dawn, when Oliver woke her.…
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Chapter Eight
Chapter Seven
Nisa stared at the newly discovered stone, after translating the Arabic, Mandarin, and Latin languages on it. It gave her a sense of what the symbols of the mysterious language…
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Chapter Seven
Chapter One
The wind whispered through the dark tunnel, bringing a chill to Nisa Acker’s entire body. For a moment, she froze where she knelt by a collapsed statue. Half of it was still buried in the ground beneath her and the upper half was cracked. The thing had to be at least two thousand years old but she handled it with care, as if she was tending to an infant. The wind whistled and Nisa swallowed deeply. “Chris? Susie? That you guys?” No answer.
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Chapter One
Chapter Six
The rest of the evening, for the next five hours, Nisa worked in her tent on the newly discovered stone tablet. Oliver and the security team guarded the entrance to…
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Chapter Six
Chapter Five
Speaking to the others about a “game plan” hadn’t really gotten them anywhere. In reality, it had wasted extra time, so Nisa spent the next four hours doing more research…
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Chapter Five
Chapter Four
Nisa stared open mouthed at the man who had once been her mentor, the same man who had betrayed her father and ruined her career. Callahan had aged since the…
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Chapter Four
Chapter Three
When three whole days passed without word from Callahan, Nisa’s worry turned from stress to a full on anxiety attack. All day, she’d been pacing in her tent, fiddling with…
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Chapter Three
Chapter Two
That night, Nisa sat in a chair in her tent, brow furrowed as she carefully scanned the new artifacts they found in the tomb into her computer system. Her laptop…
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Chapter Two