logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1 - N. S. Wikarski
The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1
by: (author)
4.11 90
THE ARKANA SERIES Series: Archaeological Thrillers That Defy History Volume One - The Granite Key "Think 'MEDIUM meets THE LOST SYMBOL' and it only begins to describe the pleasures of THE GRANITE KEY - 5 Stars." (Kindle Nation) A Wake-Up Call In a nightmare, nineteen year old Cassie Forsythe... show more
THE ARKANA SERIES Series: Archaeological Thrillers That Defy History Volume One - The Granite Key "Think 'MEDIUM meets THE LOST SYMBOL' and it only begins to describe the pleasures of THE GRANITE KEY - 5 Stars." (Kindle Nation) A Wake-Up Call In a nightmare, nineteen year old Cassie Forsythe sees her sister attacked by a man in a cowboy hat who demands something called "the key." Her nightmare mutates into reality before the night is over. Cassie is called to identify her sister's body--murdered exactly as her dream foretold. Cassie dismisses her vision as a fluke and fights to get on with her life. Disconnected and aimless now that her only family is gone, she drifts until the evening when she catches the man in the cowboy hat ransacking her sister's apartment. He bolts with an odd-looking stone cylinder--the granite key. From that moment, Cassie's normal world evaporates. A Secret Society She learns that her sister led a double life--retrieving artifacts for a secret organization called the Arkana. The Arkana's leader, an elder named Faye, explains that her group performs a controversial kind of archaeology. They scour the globe for evidence of ancient pre-patriarchal civilizations in hopes of salvaging the lost history of the world. Their network of troves safeguards artifacts from highly sophisticated goddess-worshipping cultures on every continent. Cassie's sister had the psychic ability to touch an artifact and relive its past. Cassie has now inherited this gift. Faye wants the girl to take over her sister's role in the organization. Cassie doubts her powers but agrees. Now an insider, she is transported to the Arkana's mysterious underground vault in the countryside outside Chicago where the group tackles the mystery of her sister's murder. A Dangerous Cult The Arkana learns that the man in the cowboy hat is a hired mercenary named Leroy Hunt and that he is working for a fundamentalist religious cult known as the Blessed Nephilim. He takes his orders directly from the cult's domineering prophet--Abraham Metcalf. The granite key which Leroy stole is inscribed with hieroglyphics revealing the location of a mythological artifact reputed to have mystical powers--the Sage Stone. Although skeptical of its legendary capabilities, the Arkana is still afraid to allow the relic to fall into the cult's hands. Abraham's fanatical belief in the power of the Sage Stone could be the catalyst to start a war of religious genocide. Unlocking The Key Before she died, Cassie's sister took photos of the strange markings on the granite key. The Arkana decodes the hieroglyphics which point to the ancient ruins of Minoan Crete as the hiding place of the Sage Stone. Faye hastily assembles a retrieval team including Cassie, her newly-appointed bodyguard Erik, and a British researcher named Griffin. The band of treasure hunters is mismatched and wildly dysfunctional from the start. Griffin has never gone on a field mission, Erik treats his inexperienced colleagues with contempt, and Cassie second-guesses her psychic hunches. She battles to prove herself to Erik at every turn. Their internal clashes rival the bigger crisis of what to do when they come face to face with their enemies. A Matter Of Life Or Death Even as they rake through megalithic tombs and Minoan palaces for clues, Abraham dispatches his son Daniel and hired gun Leroy Hunt to recover the Sage Stone. The Nephilim operatives won't hesitate to kill anyone standing in their way. Will Cassie and her teammates avert global disaster or find themselves casualties of Abraham's mania to exterminate the world of unbelievers? The Granite Key holds the answer.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781468115345 (1468115340)
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
http://www.authors-friend.com/
http://www.authors-friend.com/ rated it
4.0 The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1
In classroom? If I were to meet Cassie, I bet we would have long discussions about artefact and history. How would I react with the same problem? If I had been called to identify my sister the way Cassie was, I would have been talking to the police night and day.5 ways character like me? I cannot se...
The Reading Cat
The Reading Cat rated it
4.0 The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1
One word to describe character, 5 reasons? I fell in love with Cassie. She is an extremely interesting character with lots of substance, charisma, personality, heart and depthClimax and why? Some book club members disagreed with me but I felt the climax in the book wasn't as strong as I would have l...
Creating Imaginations
Creating Imaginations rated it
4.0 The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1
List of facts? Sybil was murdered by Leroy. Abraham said he was a profit. Daniel was his son. He had many wives and said, women were around just to have children. There was a secret society called Arkana. They searched for artefacts. Cassie seen Sybil's murder n a dream. Abraham ordered Leroy...
Page Turning Books
Page Turning Books rated it
4.0 The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1
Favorite character, what they believe in? Cassie, and she just wants the truth about her sister's death and her ability to see things. Hope in the end? I feel hope that everything will be finished when the author writes a second book. This time around the ending wasn't exactly an ending. Concerns ab...
Life Altering Reads
Life Altering Reads rated it
4.0 The Granite Key: Arkana Archaeology Thriller Mysteries #1
Feel about main character? Cassie was easy to like and connect with and reminds me a little of Patricia Arquette's character in Medium or Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Ghost Whisperer. Style of writer? The author isn't like Dan Brown (as her bio states) but she has a unique writing style that is easy ...
Books by N. S. Wikarski
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?