The Granite Key (The Arkana Archaeology Mystery Series Book 1)

An ancient civilization is on the point of collapse. Besieged by invaders, it sends envoys to the ends of the earth to conceal its most precious relics. Three thousand years later, a secret society and a fanatical religious cult vie against one another in a global treasure hunt to reclaim the artifacts. Only one faction can win. More importantly, only one can survive.

Volume One - The Granite Key
Cassie Forsythe is a normal college student until the night she awakens from a vivid nightmare. A man in a cowboy hat enters her sister's antique store and demands something called "the key." Her sister tries to flee and is killed right before her eyes.

Hours later, Cassie learns that her sister died exactly as her dream foretold. She vainly tries to forget the premonition until the man in the cowboy hat ransacks her sister's apartment and makes off with a mysterious stone cylinder. From that point forward, Cassie's normal world implodes.

The teenager finds herself drawn into a realm of secret societies, dangerous cults, and discovers her own disturbing role in the quest to recover the ancient artifacts. The stakes are incredibly high. THE GRANITE KEY opens a door to the lost history of the human race itself.