Ancient Thrillers

Eons before the birth of the Roman Empire, there was a civilization dedicated to the sciences of Earth, sea, and sky. In the City of Light lived people who made dark plans to lay waste to their uncivilized neighbors using the very power of the planet itself. As the great science of their time was brought to bear on the invading hordes, hell was set loose on Earth. And the civilization of Atlantis disappeared in a suicidal storm of fire and water.… Now history threatens to repeat itself.

The all-new novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their...

Peter Thornton doesn’t believe in God. Or rather, he doesn’t believe in one God. “All paths are valid,” he teaches his university students. One evening he ventures to the archaeology museum and touches an artifact recently discovered from ancient Babylon. At the touch he is transported three thousand years back in time to Old Testament Babylon. Somehow the people know him as Rim-Sin, sorcerer and high priest to the gods of Babylon. The moment he arrives he is accused of murder—a murder Rim-Sin committed—and he must run for his life. Against the backdrop of Nebuchadnezzar’s ...

You can escape the woods. But you can never outrun the bloodline. Elara Vance survived the Briarwood Holler massacre. She escaped the fire, the fangs, and the horrific truth of what slumbers beneath the Appalachian ridge. The official report called it a tragic forest fire that claimed her research team. But Elara knows the truth. The deep, cellular chill inside her has nothing to do with the trauma. Her silver scar thrums with a dark, terrifying rhythm. She brought a piece of the holler back with her—a gnawing, ravenous emptiness that grows stronger as the moon waxes. She is a ticking ...

Benjamin Franklin has spent most of his life hiding a terrifying secret. Long before the American Revolution, a brutal encounter in Europe left Franklin cursed with something ancient and savage. Through iron discipline, electrical experiments, and nights chained beneath his Philadelphia home, he has managed to keep the beast under control. But control is beginning to fail. As rebellion spreads through the colonies, mutilated bodies begin appearing across Philadelphia. Families vanish in the night. Travelers are ripped apart along isolated roads. Fear spreads through the city while whispers ...

AN EXPEDITION DISAPPEARS WHILE SEARCHING FOR A FORGOTTEN MAYAN CITY. A TREASURE TROVE OF GOLD AND MANUSCRIPTS LIES HIDDEN FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN THE RAIN FORESTS OF GUATEMALA. POWERFUL MEN WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A PRICELESS COLLECTION OF MAYAN RELICS. Former Dallas stockbroker and owner of a New York gallery specializing in artifacts and relics, Brian Sadler continues the adventures that began in the award-winning book The Bethlehem Scroll. The wealthy antiquities dealer and amateur archaeologist asks his companion Nicole Farber, a beautiful criminal lawyer from Dallas, to join him in ...

A man murdered in the Nile. A two-thousand-year-old secret. And a name on an ancient papyrus that changes everything. When a papyrologist is found dead in Cairo's Nile with a fragment of Ptolemaic Greek stuffed in his mouth, former MI6 cultural intelligence officer Callum Ashford is drawn into a conspiracy that stretches from a burning Alexandria harbor in 48 BC to the classified vaults of the British Cabinet Office. The dead man had just authenticated an extraordinary object: a bronze disc the size of a man's palm, its surface covered in a precise geometric grid. A mechanism. A map. An ...

Elizabeth Jones, vacationing from her New York publishing job, is off to do touristy things in Denmark: gawk at the Little Mermaid, stroll in the Tivoli...look for a missing person? The plane ride itself had turned out to be Kismet, introducing Elizabeth to her idol, Nobel Prize-winning historian and famed eccentric Margaret Rosenberg and her long-suffering son, Christian.

Some houses keep secrets. Sterling Estate keeps hunger. When Savannah arrives at the isolated gothic mansion hidden beneath storm-filled skies and generations of whispered rumors, she expects old legends, family mysteries, and perhaps a few unanswered questions. What she discovers instead is something far more dangerous—an ancient force awakening beneath the estate’s foundations, feeding on obsession, fear, passion, and the darkest cravings hidden deep within the human soul. Drawn together by forbidden attraction and haunted by forces neither fully understands, Savannah and Lucas ...

Ancient wonder. A seductive rival. A discovery to die for. Darwin Lacroix drops everything—including his fiancée, Eyrún—to pursue a new lead on the lost Library of Alexandria. The trail begins in Rome, but it belongs to Tessa Santarossa—a brilliant Italian operator who plays by her own rules and never shows her full hand. What starts as a promising discovery turns into a dangerous race across a two-thousand-year-old path. Armed militants want the truth buried, and Tessa’s agenda is as elusive as the prize itself. Eyrún sees the threat immediately—and when the hunt turns violent...

+++In Memory of Pope Francis+++ In 2014, Pope Francis opened the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo to the public for the first time, transforming a place of private contemplation into a space accessible to all. This act of openness and humility, so deeply aligned with his Franciscan spirit, became a profound source of inspiration for this novel. Without his gesture of sharing, this story could never have come to life.An electrifying thriller for our age of chaos. From the quiet gardens of Castel Gandolfo to the deepest vaults of the Vatican, one man holds the fate of the world in his ...

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

Two centuries ago, a covert expedition following Lewis and Clark vanished into the Idaho wilderness. Two centuries ago, a covert expedition following Lewis and Clark vanished into the Idaho wilderness. Now seven students have disappeared in the same mountains—and archaeologist Michael Rempart is the only man who suspects the truth. In his forties and dangerously compelling, Rempart carries more than academic controversy. He is the last heir of a lineage steeped in forbidden alchemy—and he knows that those who draw too near him rarely remain untouched by its shadow.

An ancient evil awakens on the storm-lashed coast. For the tourists flocking to Valentia Island's annual festival, the jagged rock of Skellig Michael is a picturesque landmark. For Caleb O'Rourke, it's a final, desperate sanctuary—a place so remote, he hopes the beast inside him can finally be contained. But the island is not a refuge. It is a cage. When a full moon rises over the Atlantic, a primal hunger is unleashed. The fishing trawler returning to the festival carries a passenger of pure, instinctual slaughter. What begins as a night of celebration descends into a bloodbath as a ...

Buried scrolls. Cutthroat rivals. A discovery that rewrites history and...sparks a saga readers never want to end. Darwin Lacroix has one shot to clear his family’s name. For decades, academia mocked the idea that a Roman treasure convoy vanished in the far north—right up until a scroll recovered from beneath Vesuvius hinted otherwise. When a diamond cache surfaces in Iceland, Darwin jumps on the first flight to Reykjavik, determined to finish what his ancestors started. But he’s not the only one chasing the treasure. A ruthless cartel wants it first, and they play for keeps. Forced ...

A Paris icon in flames. A conspiracy in the Church. Can this determined explorer survive the search for a hidden history? Renowned archaeologist Darwin Lacroix remains obsessed, proving his theory that Roman’s used lava tubes. But he’s interrupted by the Pope, who personally requests Darwin’s help to retrieve a codex stolen from the Pontiff’s private vault. Discovering that the cryptic text points to the long-sought Knights Templar treasure, he realizes a mysterious cave may also solve his own puzzle. As he digs up a trail of ancient connections, he’s shocked to learn the true ...

The Bookbinder’s Secret The Library of Alexandria — Book One At the height of the Library of Alexandria’s power, knowledge is sacred — and dangerously fragile. Callimachus Ariston, Master Librarian of the greatest repository of learning the world has ever known, believes truth is preserved through precision. Every scroll copied, every binding sealed, every word preserved exactly as it was written. Until a mistake appears. A single altered word in a newly bound scroll leads Ariston into the bindery wing—where glue, ink, and quiet labor hide something far more unsettling than error....

Call of Duty meets Call of Cthulhu. A cave in Afghanistan. A squad of Marines. And an ancient evil that should have stayed buried. 2016, Helmand Province: Sergeant Wyatt Hood’s routine mission to clear an insurgent cave system goes sideways when his Marines stumble into something far worse than the Taliban — a lost underground city, a monstrous Guardian of tentacles and hunger, and a cosmic artifact that could crack open reality itself. But Wyatt’s biggest problem isn’t the monster. It’s the two State Department civilians he’s been ordered to babysit — especially Chloe Winters...

✨ One act of kindness. One ancient god watching. One life changed forever. Ben never expected rescuing a stranded baby mountain goat in the Olympic Mountains would alter the course of his destiny. But someone else was watching—an ancient god with a mischievous streak and a divine agenda. Pan, the old god of animals, lust, and wild desire, sees Ben’s selflessness and decides to reward him in the most unexpected way. Overnight, the quiet bachelor history teacher—and former Marine—finds himself blessed with supernatural gifts tied to passion, instinct, and the primal forces of nature...

A man is recovered from the Arctic. He should not be alive. When psychologist Dr. Thomas Ashworth is summoned to a secure research facility in the Netherlands, he expects a difficult patient. What he finds instead is a silent, watchful man with impossible strength, an unnatural capacity to heal, and a mind that seems older than the modern world itself. As trust forms between them over long silences and games of chess, the man begins to speak. First in fragments. Then in dead languages no living person should know. Then, at last, in a claim so extraordinary it threatens to unmake history ...