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Serpent
Adventure thriller
Serpent
Book 1 of the NUMA Files series
Marine archaeologist Nina Kirov discovers evidence of ancient contact between the Old and New Worlds off Morocco, then survives an attack that kills her expedition. NUMA team leader Kurt Austin rescues her and links the massacre to other vanished researchers, the wreck of the Andrea Doria, and a priceless pre-Columbian artifact. Industrialist Halcon intends to erase inconvenient history while using its secrets to carve a new nation from the United States and Mexico. Sweeping and fast-moving, this NUMA Files opener suits readers who enjoy underwater archaeology, contested history, shipwrecks, global conspiracies, and resourceful specialists racing from Atlantic depths to Mesoamerican ruins.
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Violence, danger, and sustained peril · Moderate frightening/intense material · Heavier kissing and romantic intimacy
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