Ancient Shadows

<p><em>One by one a horror film director a judge and a newspaper publisher meet brutal deaths. A link exists between them and the deaths have only begun ...</em></p><p><br />Archeologist Michael Rempart finds himself pitted against ancient demons and modern conspirators when a dying priest gives him a powerful artifact--a pearl said to have granted Genghis Khan the power eight centuries ago to lead his Mongol warriors across the steppes to the gates of Vienna.<br /><br />The artifact has set off centuries of war and destruction as it conjures demons to play upon men's strongest ambitions and cruelest desires. Michael realizes the so-called pearl is a philosopher's stone the prime agent of alchemy. As much as he would like to ignore the artifact when he sees horrific deaths and experiences first-hand diabolical possession and affliction he has no choice but to act.<br /><br />The dark legends are true. To stop the artifact's evil Michael must follow a path along the Old Silk Road to a land that time forgot and to somehow find a place that may no longer exist in the world as he knows it.</p>