Mostrando resultados por autor "Rosina Albert Wolfe" en Todas las categorías

Seattle, USA, 1992: Corporate espionage bleeds into international intrigue when a few businessmen are found floating in the lakes around Seattle. These men once worked together in Soviet Russia, along with Natalya McAran’s business partner, Marc Kellison. But is Kellison another potential victim, or the killer? What secret did they share that got those men killed in such a precise method—very professional? SPD detectives ask the same things about her. A 'former' analyst for the KGB, Natalya McAran was an orphan of the Cold War. On the anniversary of her parents' death, another body is ...

Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR, 1974 to Seattle, USA, 1992: Natalya was only six when her parents were killed in Baku. Accident? Suicide? Assassination? A Purge was suspected, her mother was a prominent Soviet scientist. But official Soviet records went missing, it seems—and so did the girl. Her father’s relatives in America were told she was dead. Instead, the gifted child was being twisted into an asset for the KGB while most girls were still playing with dolls. There are things in her past she does not recall—perhaps by KGB design. As a young woman, when Natalya failed as a field operative...

The Last Days of the Russian Imperial family after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the desperate hope that some of the family actually survived their captivity and that terrible night. . . some of this is true. Based on excerpts of journals and letters of the Imperial Romanov family and their friends, before and during the Soviet Revolution, plus other contemporaneous accounts of the Imperial internment, and rumors of Romanov survivors. 1917: Europe was enraged in World War when revolution began within Russia. By March of 1917, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate after 300 years of ...

Past lives, same souls; some know, some don't: What happens when old souls meet again? Mid-1970s: Detective Sergeant Susan Hannah is the first female police detective in this small city near the Oregon coast. Some call it “women’s liberation,” but others think women should know their “place.” After a young woman staggers into the clinic near the college campus and dies without a word, the new detective discovers a series of rapes and a police cover-up that has gone on for years. The college is run by a monastery whose mysterious sect started over a thousand years ago in southern ...

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." ~ John Milton, 'Paradise Lost.' -- Seattle, USA, 1992: After decades of Cold War, the Soviet Union has collapsed. In the chaos, Natalya (a KGB analyst) escaped on a diplomatic flight from the US Embassy in Moscow. In search of her American father's family, she now runs a high-tech firm in Seattle. They specialize in corporate security systems—she has expertise. Now disavowed by the 'former' Soviets, on the anniversary of her parents' death, a body is dumped outside her front door. Have old ...

What do missing members of the Romanov family—supposedly executed in 1918—have to do with Imperial Russian treasures looted by the Nazis in 1943? Rostock, Germany, 1943: For months, the Nazis have been secretly shipping treasures looted from all over Europe to black market auctions outside the Third Reich. Now someone has been stealing from the Germans—but only items looted from the Romanov palace at Livadia, on the Black Sea. Lena Schiller must find the culprits before the Gestapo finds easier prey to blame—someone like her. Her Russian mother escaped the Russian Revolution when ...

Based on the legends and descendants of Mary Magdalene. In late summer, Anno Domini 1243, southern France: A gifted healer tends the great herbal gardens of her village in the foothills above the river valley. Renata is the botanist here, just as her grandmother had been before, and hers, as far back as remembering. Legend claims the orchard and herbs were first planted here by the earliest Christians fleeing Roman persecution in the Holy Land, perhaps even tended by the hands of Mary Magdalene herself. For generations too, her family has also trained children of the village in the use of ...

Rural southwest Montana, mid-1980s: Last seen heading out on a late-night winter highway, Kerry McKenna’s car went into the icy water of a Montana river. Some claim it was grief that made her so distracted, even suicidal, because she'd been widowed only months before. There was a funeral and a tombstone set down; only a few people knew that her body was never found. But Kimber has been having dreams about that terrible night when her twin sister disappeared. It’s not Kerry's voice in her head that bothers her—that's always been there. It’s the doubts about the accident, and the ...

Rural southwest Montana, 1984: Kimber was only trying to find out what really happened to her sister, and why she is still being haunted. Who knew she'd be in such danger from asking simple questions. Seems the farm colony has more secrets than the military base, and Kimber is stuck in-between the two. If she learns the truth, will it be the end of her too? Reliquary: A vessel or urn, any artifact meant for precious things, including artifacts and relics. Where something precious is saved. I could be where a Soul might go—might not be possession as commonly defined, but just a place where...

Mid 1980s, LA and Prayer, MT: Kerry gave up her position in a posh private school for girls because she had always wanted to work as a missionary in Africa. She married a cop with the LAPD who wanted the same thing. But when he got shot, he also got hooked on opiates, and mumbled the truth: He didn't want to go to Africa. She didn't want him to stay in LA, where it was easy to feed his drug habit. They compromised, and found positions in a small town in rural Montana, a place place to heal, called Prayer. But there was more than either bargained for: a religious farm colony and a small, but...

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Seattle, mid-1990s: She was meant to walk the earth unseen. Some call it covert, and most people weren't supposed to notice her. But Emi Rye came to Seattle to solve a murder that didn't actually happen. At least, according to Seattle PD. They claim her best friend came here to marry a man she met on the Internet. But instead of jumping into wedded bliss, Julia took a dive off the bridge. The cops put it down as the lovesick suicide of a delusional stalker. Emi doesn't...