Ancient Passages

<p><strong style=color: rgba(13 13 13 1)><em>Where ancient myths echo through crumbling ruins and long-forgotten gods lurk in the shadow</em></strong><strong><em> some legends refuse to die...</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Michael Rempart never expected to become a guardian. But after the devastating events in Russia his ten-year-old half-sister Zoe is all he has left-and she carries shadows he cannot explain. She speaks of things she should not know. She dreams of voices that are not her own.</p><p></p><p>And someone is watching.</p><p></p><p>Desperate to protect her from the influence of their alchemist father Michael retreats to the ancestral Rempart estate on Cape Cod. But Zoe does not belong in its polished halls-or in the private school meant to make her ordinary. The darkness that touched her mother has not released its hold.</p><p></p><p>A cryptic lead draws Michael to a remote Sicilian village steeped in the myths of Persephone and the underworld. There he meets Eden Burrows a brilliant scholar obsessed with decoding the Voynich Manuscript-a book long rumored to conceal the ultimate alchemical secret.</p><p></p><p>Not gold.</p><p></p><p>Immortality.</p><p></p><p>As Michael and Eden begin to unravel the manuscript's hidden structure he realizes the truth is more dangerous than legend. The philosopher's stone is not metaphor. It is a method. And someone has been guiding them toward it.</p><p></p><p>Manipulation tightens like a vice. Zoe's condition worsens. And Michael begins to understand that every step he has taken may have been part of a design far older-and far more personal-than he imagined.</p><p></p><p>From the haunted coasts of Cape Cod to the sun-bleached ruins of Sicily <em>Ancient Passages</em> is a sweeping occult action-thriller of forbidden knowledge corrupted legacy and a battle for the soul of a child-and the future of mankind.</p><p></p><p><strong>Book FIVE of the Ancient Secrets Series: Where the past is buried... but never dead.</strong></p><p>From hidden relics to forbidden knowledge the <em>Ancient Secrets</em> novels follow archaeologist Michael Rempart across continents as he uncovers mysteries history tried to erase-each tied to alchemy ancient power and dark forces that refuse to remain buried.</p><p></p><p><strong>Perfect for Readers Who Love</strong></p><ul><li><ul><li>Archaeological thrillers with global stakes</li><li>Ancient mysteries rooted in real history</li><li>Alchemy relics and forbidden knowledge</li><li>Supernatural suspense with dark undertones</li><li>High-intensity adventures spanning past and present</li></ul></li></ul><p>About the Ancient Secrets books:</p><p>...occult secrets centuries old and mortally dangerous to explore... Highly recommended. </p><p> -Hellnotes</p><p>Vampires demons history alchemy globe-trotting characters that don't let you down and a smattering of romance. This series has it all.</p><p> </p>