Solstice Shadows

<p><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);>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.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);><em>A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she and the VanOps team decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a high-tech apocalypse?</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);>Broad-shouldered marine turned covert agent Bear Thorenson wants his aikido black-belt girlfriend to join VanOps but software expert Maddy Marshall isn't sure she's ready for a hazardous dark-operations role. When an armed Russian thief escapes over her wrought-iron fire escape carrying an ancient star chart in his hand her only choice is to join Bear in the pursuit. If her royal Spanish family legends are true the mysterious chart leads to a treasure trove capable of powering the ultimate quantum computer. Maddy soon learns that the lightning-fast machine will be used by fringe members of the Russian government to spark a global war and her eyes grow wide with fear before her spine stiffens with resolve.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);>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. Racing across the globe through the dangerous bazaars of Morocco fallen Turkish temples and Egypt's perilous Valley of the Kings the covert group must fight to stay even a half-step ahead of sinister assassins.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);>With millions of lives on the line can Maddy and Bear crack the chart's secret code in time?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);>SOLSTICE SHADOWS (VANOPS #2) is a standalone novel in the fast-paced multi-award-winning VanOps thriller series. 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 high-stakes novel.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);>Bronze medal winner - Adventure </strong><span style=background-color: rgb(255 255 255); color: rgb(0 0 0);>- 2020 Readers' Favorite Awards</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);>Global Thriller Genre Grand Prize Winner</strong><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);> - 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards</span></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);>An instant Barnes & Noble Nook Best Seller and Amazon #1 Best Seller!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0); background-color: rgb(255 255 255);>THE LOST POWER (VANOPS #1) was an instant Barnes and Noble Best Seller and rare multi-award-winning novel.</span></p><p> </p><p><strong>SOLSTICE SHADOWS award-winning best seller will take you on a heart-pounding mission you'll always remember. Don't miss this wild thrill ride!</strong></p>