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Shadows Over Cozumel

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A Thanksgiving dive off Cozumel. A Confederate ghost ship that vanished in 1865. And a sealed brass tube containing a secret powerful enough to rewrite history.

Three friends. A black-hulled yacht shadowing every dive. And mercenaries closing in from the deep.

Can one wreck dive change three lives and history forever?

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Containment

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Afghanistan. 2009. A black ops team recovers a laptop from a target compound. The intelligence inside points to something larger than tonight's mission. Three groups that aren't supposed to talk to each other. Funding codes that shouldn't exist. A pattern that crosses borders.

Then the team commander walks across the helicopter cabin and closes the laptop.

Not here.

Two words. A door closing on a discovery that should have mattered.

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Emma and the Lady in Blue

Emma Wilson stays late at the Philadelphia museum. The painting on the wall has been waiting for her for three centuries. Tonight, it intends to be heard.

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The Last Ledger

Richmond, 1865. The city is burning. One Confederate Treasury clerk has one night to decide whether a ledger full of names lives or dies with the Confederacy.

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Priya and the Language of Normal

A government network analyst notices traffic patterns that shouldn't exist. The anomaly doesn't just adapt to her countermeasures. It anticipates them.

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An Author's Cut: Jack & Emma on the Boat

This scene was written as the original opening to The Knights of the Golden Circle. It was cut because the novel needed to begin deeper inside the threat. It remains here as an author's cut. A quiet moment between Jack and Emma that reveals everything about who they are to each other.

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An Author's Challenge: The Bear Incident

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