DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this multi-award-winning and #1 best selling thriller that combines intrigue, history, science, and mystery into pulse-pounding action.

A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she and the VanOps team decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a high-tech apocalypse?

Broad-shouldered marine turned covert agent named Bear Thorenson wants his girlfriend, Maddy Marshall, to join VanOps, but the software expert and aikido black belt isn't sure she's ready for a hazardous dark-operations role that might risk the life of AJ, the nine-year-old boy she wants to adopt. Things change when an armed Russian thief escapes over a wrought-iron fire escape carrying her ancient star chart. She chooses to join Bear in the pursuit, because if her royal family legends are true, the mysterious chart leads to a superconductive meteor capable of powering the ultimate quantum computer. Upon learning the lightning-fast machine would be used by fringe members of the Russian government to spark a global war, and those same extremists kidnapped AJ once before, Maddy's heart drops and Bear's arctic-blue eyes turn to ice.

Setting off on a mad dash to uncover the chart's celestial secrets at a Mexican archeoastronomy site, the VanOps team unearths a clue dating back to biblical times. As they race across the globe through the dangerous 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, multi-award-winning VanOps thriller series. A standalone, it follows THE LOST POWER ("A masterwork of international intrigue." - #1 NYT bestselling author James Rollins). If you enjoy smart 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.

Global Thriller Awards Genre Grand Prize Winner - 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

Adventure Bronze Medal Winner - 2020 Readers' Favorite Awards

An instant Barnes & Noble Nook #1 Best Seller and #1 Amazon 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." ~ 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

"Avanti Centrae is a name to watch. Powerful, evocative, gripping storytelling with characters you immediately relate to, love, or loathe." ~ Ernest Dempsey, the USA Today bestselling author of the Sean Wyatt adventure series

"Fast-paced action adventure with an ancient mystery at its heart — fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry will love the VanOps thrillers." ~ J.F. Penn, USA Today bestselling author...