Releasing summer of ’27

Grace Masterson, “an archaeologist of mature vintage,” is rebuilding her stellar reputation after a shattering professional disaster, and her life after a humiliating divorce. When blackmailers interrupt these Herculean tasks by threatening her adult children, Grace—armed with decades of experience and contacts in the Middle East, a sharp mind, courage and determination, and a preternatural sense of smell—embarks on an impossible journey to save her kids by meeting the blackmailer’s demand that she find museum antiquities hidden during the Syrian Civil War.

But will pride and loyalty blind her to the evil right beneath her hound-dog nose?

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
I wrote Thirsty Bones after a harrowing experience on an archaeological dig on the Galilean Peninsula, my (then) teenage children by my side. Machine gun fire rattled in Lebanon, heavy artillery fire rumbled from Syria, and an Israel Defense Forces camo-painted bomber slipped through the clouds to circle above us. Every maternal instinct I had—and a few I didn’t KNOW I had—kicked into high gear, and Grace Masterson was born that day. I admire how Grace comes to grips with her failures while loving fiercely and unconditionally, and how her powerful character develops as she adapts to the changes, both personal and professional, that many of us face as we age.