Saturday, August 18 at 1:00 p.m.

St. Martin’s, $6.99 (mass market paperback original)

Army chaplain Jaime Richards survives a kidnap attempt soon after she lands in Iraq, in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom – and is reunited with one of her oldest friends, Adara Dunbar. Adara is murdered soon after their reunion, but manages to give Jaime a silver pendant and a cryptic message. As Jaime follows down the clues, she finds herself face-to-face with some of the most ancient mysteries known to humanity.