Novels

Wounded in France during the Great War, Mark Blaine returns to Boston in 1919 to recuperate and prepare to re-enter Harvard College. An urgent plea for help from a beautiful woman proves far more attractive than studying history, so Mark agrees to return to France to learn the fate of the woman’s brother, a fellow soldier. Mark quickly discovers that not everyone in the Old World wants the past brought to light.

Army veteran Mark Blaine returns to Harvard College in the fall of 1919, only to find his colleagues in turmoil. A controversial outsider has been named head of the history department, and he seems bent on alienating everyone from professors to students. As the situation deteriorates, Mark seems to be the only one capable of unraveling the dark secrets that underlie the resulting tragedies—even at the risk of his own life.

After Mark Blaine graduates from Harvard College in 1920, his exploration of possible career options is sidetracked when an attractive young heiress asks him to look into an unexplained death. His investigation takes him from upscale business offices to a lowly pub fronting on Boston Harbor. As he tries to unravel the mystery, Mark himself becomes the target of an unknown assailant. It takes all his skills as an investigator to discover who is responsible and why.

The extended Fraser clan gathers at their great uncle’s mansion on Chicago’s North Shore to learn the contents of his will. They anticipated spending a long weekend getting to know each other, their foibles, and ambitions. When someone turns up dead, however, each member of this dysfunctional family has to consider who or what may have caused this unnerving development. And, not incidentally, how it may affect the reading of The Will.

Photographer Conner Barrett discovers that one of the artifacts he photographed at the Anasazi ruins at Mesa Verde projects a mysterious halo. He brings his finding to the attention of a young anthropology professor. She recognizes the artifact is a seemingly impossible match to others found across continents and across centuries. As they set out on a quest to find these others, they quickly realize they are not the only ones on the trail — and the others are out for blood. A dangerous race around the globe follows as they seek to determine the sources of and to understand the unusual powers of the mysterious artifacts.

Anthropologist Jill Larkin discovers a drawing of an unusual symbol where it never should have been. Intrigued, she convinces her husband, photographer Connor Barrett, to join her in a global search to find other examples of the anachronistic symbol. After unsettling visits to Scotland, Finland, the Middle East and the Balkans, they return to America only to unearth even more frightening and dangerous properties of the mystical symbol.

On her deathbed, a Scottish woman charges her daughter Ellen with finding her long lost father. His name and his service in the American Navy during the Revolutionary War are all she knows. Ellen’s journey to the United States in the late 1790s tests her courage and resourcefulness. Along the way, she encounters some helpful people and, unfortunately, some who are truly evil, but her resolve to find her father never falters.