The Compass Master

A masterpiece of suspenseful storytelling in the spirit of The Da Vinci Code and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Museums and wealthy private collectors of antiquities turn to Layla Daltry when their more respectable sources fail. As a scholar of ancient manuscripts, she knows what to look for. But as a romantic idealist and thrill-seeker, she takes too many risks and balances on the edge of the law. Yet even Daltry isn't prepared for the deadly endgame that's set in motion when her mentor dies. She learns too late that the professor had been secretly following an ancient trail of codes and ciphers that lead to two hidden epistles: one which holds a lost chapter of earliest Christianity, and the other a radically different apocalypse than the one found in the Book of Revelation.

Now an unseen enemy determined to destroy the epistles has stolen the professor's final clues and is shadowing Layla. With her life in the balance, she must race across Europe and find the hiding place. The only expert who can help her is former lover Zach Sandoval - a man who betrayed her once before. Together they discover that the professor and the enemy had, years earlier, chosen them to be both players and rivals in a lightning-paced hunt that is now spiraling out of control into a contest of intrigue, treachery, and lethal mystery.