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For years, mercenary Easy Nevada risked her life finding ancient artefacts for a mysterious benefactor. Now she's after one last score, the biggest of all: a relic so cursed that it was buried with Cleopatra in a secret tomb over 2,000 years ago. But to uncover it, she'll need help. By-the-book Candice Cushing only ever wanted to conduct archaeology the traditional way. Now the find of a lifetime is beckoning from the middle of the Sahara, but she'll have to throw her lot in with Easy Nevada to get to it.

Dr. Evan Knight, a maverick historian and martial arts expert, is on a lifelong quest for the Garden of Eden. He researches it, he paints it, he even dreams about it. One day, while giving a college lecture on the garden, he recognizes a compelling and beautiful woman from his recurring dream. Except Jessima IL Eve is no ordinary woman, and she's about to introduce Evan Knight to a world of danger, wonder, and ancient history.

Leah, a coroner's assistant in Vermillion Parish, finds herself at the center of the horror she had been investigating for months. After a night of partying at the Duck Festival with her boyfriend, she awakens bound, gagged, and blindfolded, eerily mimicking the gruesome crime scenes she had once meticulously documented.

When newlywed archaeologists Charlie and Ella Colton head for the Cayman Islands, at a cultural dance performance, they spot what looks like a Mayan jade necklace from 500 A.D.They start poking around for information about the artifact, and learn that an antiquities thief has been switching out national treasures with forgeries. When a private antiquities collector hires Charlie and Ella to find the real necklace, they take time out of their honeymoon to investigate the growing spate of artifact forgeries connected with the Museum of Ancient Cultures.

When Cash is asked to complete the research of a renowned historian - a man famous for his search for the Holy Grail - she can't agree quickly enough. After all, life at her new home in Berkeley, California, has quickly become dull: too dull for a best-selling adventurer who's equally famous for her hands-on research...and for landing in hot water.

With a string of lucrative assignments coming in from the Hagia Sofia Museum, Chyna Stone and her Found History are keeping busy. That is, until Chyna receives an unexpected call from her friend, Ilea Le Gal, the Director of UNESCO. Lana Ambrose and the other scientist working at an important Iraqi dig site have mysteriously disappeared. Chyna immediately gathers the rest of her team and rushes to their aid, only to discover that Lana and her team had been kidnapped for reasons that go far beyond mere ransom.

Once a tool of treachery between two Scandinavian brothers, an ancient Viking relic now has the attention of an international smuggling ring - and Chyna and her Found History archaeological team need to figure out exactly what it is and where it came from before they are caught in a web of espionage.

In The Lost Continent, when Cash Cassidy, a best-selling adventure author, jets off to Greece and leaves her husband behind, it's for a good reason: to research the myth of Atlantis for a new novel. To help her begin researching the book, Cash's publisher rents her a place on the edge of the Aegean Sea, near where Atlantis is rumored to have disappeared thousands of years ago.

When the ship disappears in the Sea of Okhotsk, Fiona's parole officer illegally releases her from prison so she and the Alpha Adventures team can locate and recover the missing gold. His stake in this case is personal. The catch is, the Alpha Adventurers have to act fast before anyone discovers that Fiona's on the lam. If they don't quickly succeed, she'll have to return to prison.

Was a rare amethyst mine illegally seized from the Japanese ancestors of a well-known Atlanta family, just after World War II? Four months ago, anthropologist professor Travis Monahan got shot while on an investigation of the mysterious floating city at Baikal. Suffering from PTSD, he's been holed up in their Atlanta office with his Jack Russell terrier and his brooding thoughts.

When an unexpected find is made in the deserts east of Luxor, Chyna Stone and the Found History team are brought in to help with the excavation of the Chambers of Ay. As they explore the underground maze of forgotten corridors and hidden passageways, they become keenly aware that there is much more to this discovery than meets the eye. A discovery that reaches down through the ages.

They call themselves "The Adventurers", a group of six extraordinary people who come together for one unforgettable purpose - to seek the impossible. Funded by a billionaire heiress - and each possessing a unique skill set - the Adventurers will stop at nothing to find the mythical, the fantastical, the lost, and the forgotten.

A sweeping adventure that's equal parts romance and thriller, K.T. Tomb's latest novel takes the reader from the ruins of a lost civilization to the sun-drenched beaches of the Mediterranean. While on an archaeological dig in Knossos, Crete - Europe's oldest city - Chyna Stone and the Found History team come across a tantalizing clue to the location of a legendary treasure.