DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in the second exciting installment of the rare ten-time-award-winning and #1 international bestselling VanOps global thriller series. A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she and the VanOps team decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a high-tech apocalypse? VanOps has a charter to save the world from mysterious threats, and Director Bowman wants software expert Maddy Marshall to join the team. But the Aikido blackbelt isn't sure she's ready for a hazardous role that might risk the life of AJ, the nine-year-old boy she wants to adopt. When an armed Russian thief escapes over her fire escape carrying an ancient star chart, Maddy's heart drops. She decides to join her broad-shouldered boyfriend, Bear Thorenson, in a covert ops mission to retrieve the chart, as it may lead to an arcane weapon that fringe members of the Russian government will use to spark a global war.Setting off on a mad dash to uncover the chart's celestial secrets, the VanOps team races across the globe through the bazaars of Morocco, fallen Turkish temples, and Egypt's perilous Valley of the Kings. They must fight to stay even a half-step ahead of sinister assassins. Worse, the place Maddy sent AJ for refuge becomes the enemy's testing ground, where hungry gangs roam darkened streets.With millions of lives on the line, can Maddy and Bear rescue the boy and crack the chart's secret code?SOLSTICE SHADOWS is the second novel in the fast-paced, one-of-a-kind VanOps thriller series. If you enjoy exciting edge-of-your-seat suspense by James Rollins, Dan Brown, Steve Berry, or Clive Cussler, you'll stay up late turning the pages of Avanti Centrae's "rousing sequel." (Kirkus Reviews.)Genre Grand Prize Winner - Global Thrillers - 2019 Chanticleer International Book AwardsBronze Medal Winner - Adventure - 2020 Readers' Favorite Awards An instant Barnes & Noble Nook Best Seller and Amazon #1 International Best Seller! ____________________________________"Fans of complex and highly detailed espionage and action thrillers are certain to dive right into this mixture between Indiana Jones and Dan Brown." ~ Readers' Favorite - Five stars "A tantalizing new series that combines historical mystery and cutting-edge science into a masterwork of international intrigue." ~ James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Odyssey "Unputdownable. Avanti Centrae packs a thriller parachute with endless suspense and a rip-cord ending. SOLSTICE SHADOWS is meticulously researched, the history, science, and locales offering a rare 'you-are-there' authenticity. Brew a large pot of java, as you will read through the night. Brilliant." ~ K.J. Howe, international bestselling author of SKYJACK____________________________________ SOLSTICE SHADOWS, multi-award-winning #1 best seller, will take you on a heart-pounding mission you'll always remember. Read this wild thrill ride today!
