While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Picture's business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire. But when themagnate'swifeiskidnapped, TeddyFayisbroughtintoassess thethreatandrecovertheyoung woman as quickly as possible.
As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find that darker forces are at play and an old vendetta has been revived that puts them all at risk. Meanwhile, danger lurks even nearer to home as an obsessive fan with perilous intentions weasels his way onto the film set, and only Teddy can stop him from getting too close for comfort.
Teddy must put all his skills to the test in Obsession a new adventure in the series Teddy Fay by author Stuart Woods.
In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard.
Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, three violently crushed and missing eyes and tongues. The case, given the code name 'Dead Mountain' by the FBI, was never solved. Now, two more bodies from the lost expedition are unexpectedly discovered in a cave, one a grisly suicide.
Young FBI Agent Corrie Swanson teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate what really happened on that fateful trip fifteen years ago-and to find the ninth victim. But their search awakens a long-slumbering evil, which pursues Corrie and Nora with a vengeance, determined to prevent the final missing corpse from ever coming to light.'-Provided by publisher.
Authors Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s book Dead Mountain is the latest installment of their series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, who investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution.
Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community.
There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. At 16, Mia secretly takes out books from a nearby library as education and reading are forbidden after members turn 15, and she tries to convince her mother to join her in an escape.
WhenMiaJacobcannolonger see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The book The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil.
But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? TheInvisibleHour b y Alice Hoffman is an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, and self-discovery.