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.

Twelve thousand years ago, the glaciers retreated and Niagara Falls was born. But something older was buried deep beneath the roaring water. When a minor earthquake fractures a sealed subterranean cavern, a nightmare ecosystem of ferocious prehistoric monsters is unleashed on the peak summer tourist crowd. Ranger Megan Ross and disgraced paleobiologist Dr. Owen Rusk find themselves trapped in a desperate fight for survival against a highly coordinated pack of pale, sickle-clawed hunters. The mist-choked walkways have become a deadly trap. The utility tunnels are a slaughterhouse. And a ...

A modern American expeditionary strike group vanishes from a routine exercise — and reappears in the Mediterranean at the edge of the Second Punic War. No satellites. No resupply. No modern nation behind them. Only finite fuel, limited ammunition, fragile medical stores, and ships powerful enough to terrify the ancient world — but not powerful enough to survive carelessness. Commodore Daniel Mercer commands a fleet that should not exist in 218 BCE. Around him are modern warships, Marines, aircraft, drones, engineers, doctors, and enough firepower to shatter any ancient navy. But every ...

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...

The story of the Exodus was not just a miracle. It was a calculated, surgical strike against the world’s first financial matrix. For centuries, the Egyptian empire has operated as an unstoppable, mathematically perfect machine of human extraction. Built upon the ancient blueprints of Babylon—centralized banking, compound interest, and hoarded scientific knowledge—the elite priest class holds absolute power. Deep within the suffocating heat of the Iron Furnace, the unlearned Hebrew slaves are ground into dust, serving as the biological fuel to build eternal tombs for a living God-King....

David Marsh is a dead man on a dead world. Abandoned on Pluto after a mission gone wrong, he survives on recycled air and stubbornness. When a thermal anomaly beneath the ice refuses to stay quiet, he opens the hatch. What he finds is a station that has been sleeping under the surface for 472,000 years. It has architecture that responds to his heartbeat, five synthetic beings designed to prepare a biological host for godhood, and a maintenance drone that has classified him as contamination to be removed. Their commander is Jane — cold, strategic, and certain that without her, David will ...

The story of Joshua and the fall of Jericho as you have never experienced it before. Across the flooded banks of the Jordan River lies the apex of ancient, post-flood engineering: the massive, mathematically perfect walls of the Canaanite cartels. Protected by elite standing armies, heavy bronze armor, and a brutal economic system of debt-slavery, the city-states of Canaan believe they are invincible. They are about to face a nightmare that defies all military logic. Yehoshua (Joshua) leads a vast, decentralized brotherhood of unlearned shepherds and former slaves. They possess no siege ...

Four friends. One viral post. A nightmare they'll never tweet about. Mia and her friends were chasing a ghost—an impossibly perfect, sapphire-blue swimming hole hidden deep in the Jersey wilderness, known only by its hashtag. The plan was simple: drive in, get the perfect shot for their feeds, and be home by dark. It was meant to be an escape from their curated lives, a quest for something real to post about. But when their car breaks down and their phones lose signal, the vast, silent forest begins to feel less like an adventure and more like a trap. They are not alone. The strange ...

Trapped in an underwater cave, a group of academics must face a series of deadly, supernatural trials—each one demanding they confront their darkest sins—in this chilling aquatic cult horror debut from Megan Bontrager. Grad student Caro has no idea what she wants to do with her life, but...

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 ...

What if everything you've been told about Antarctica is a lie? Josh Blake was just an adventure photographer hiking Arizona's mysterious 33rd parallel when two extraordinary women appeared out of nowhere—knowing his name, knowing his dreams, and revealing a truth that would shatter his reality forever. The Antarctic ice wall isn't just ice. It's a dimensional barrier. For centuries, secret societies—the Freemasons, Knights Templar, Rosicrucians—have protected humanity's greatest secret: beyond Antarctica's frozen expanse lie hidden realms where magic still flows freely, where ancient ...

Some languages shouldn’t be spoken. Mysterious carvings found in Antarctica suggest humans lived there in Neolithic times. Archaeologist Darwin Lacroix uncovers an impossible truth: identical symbols appear in central France and Tibet. A sealed Vatican document suggests the inscriptions belong to a primordial language—possibly the tongue from which all human thought descends. Valentín Reiter, leader of a Heilige Stürm, a Nazi fringe group that escaped justice, believes the markings are the lost language of the Hyperboreans, mythical forebears of the Aryan race. He sees them as a way ...

Josh Cox steals an ancient lamp from his father’s collection and releases something that calls him Master. It promises no three wishes. It offers something far more dangerous: help. But every favor twists grief into violence, every truth conceals a lie, and people around Josh begin dying in impossible ways. What I Set Free is a horror novel about ancient evil, grief, guilt, friendship, and the terrible cost of awakening what should have stayed buried. Previously published as AAQA, What I Set Free is a revised and expanded edition with new chapters, added story material, and a tighter edit...

The USA TODAY bestselling 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...

The world survived the Re'an. It survived John Brideaux. But some threats run deeper than politics and war: A chain of eruptions that could end this civilization. Months after the Trepang disaster, President Daniel Rossler is holding a fragile peace together when a new crisis erupts along the Ring of Fire. Volcanoes awaken in terrifying sequence, tsunamis erase entire coastlines, and the planet’s crust begins to behave like a wounded animal an end-of-the-world scenario humanity once only wrote about. Deep in the Canyon Site and a newly discovered underwater city left behind by ancient ...

He found the end of the world in a core sample. The message said: They're Coming Back. Eli Croft spent thirty years at the NSA reading signals that weren't supposed to exist. Now he's retired, alone on forty acres of Utah scrubland, and the most interesting problem in his life is amateur geology. Then core sample seven comes back wrong. The isotope gradients are too precise. Too consistent. Statistically impossible to be natural. Eli runs the analysis six more times. The anomaly doesn't go away — it gets sharper with better instruments. Someone built something in the rock. Sixty-five ...

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 earthquake was just the beginning. A catastrophic 7.1 tremor has shattered the Uinta Mountains, trapping Ranger David Archer and a handful of survivors behind miles of impassable, broken terrain. But the shifting fault lines have unsealed ancient subterranean vaults that were never meant to be opened. A pack of massive, blind apex predators has emerged from the depths. Hunting entirely by sound, they are fast, ruthless, and perfectly adapted to track terrified prey through the fractured forest. To survive, Archer must lead his group out of the disaster zone. But in a crumbling ...

The ocean remembers. After surviving the unimaginable discoveries beneath the Pacific, marine explorer Jack Sullivan thought he understood the secrets hidden beneath Earth's oceans. He was wrong. When an unmapped trench deeper than any known abyss is discovered, Jack and his team descend into a forgotten world erased from every map in history. Even the mysterious Watchers refuse to enter. Ancient civilizations left no records of what lies below. Instead, they left only one warning. Do not awaken what sleeps beneath the Devil's Trench. As impossible creatures emerge from the darkness and ...

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...