Circle of Bones

Maggie Riley sailed a thousand miles to ask a man she once loved one question.

Two years ago, in the smoke of the Lima embassy bombing, the Marine watched him walk away — leaving her with burn scars and a friend she couldn't carry out fast enough. Call it crazy, call it closure. She wanted one hour with the Ivy League SOB.

She never gets to ask.

Three miles off Guadeloupe, she pulls a half-drowned stranger out of the sea wearing nothing but a gold coin on a chain. Dr. Cole Thatcher calls himself a maritime archaeologist. His colleagues call him a crackpot. Armed with his murdered father's coded journals, he's hunting the French submarine Surcouf — and someone is hunting him.

Riley wants no part of it. Then she puts his gold coin under a magnifier and finds three numbers etched beneath the angel's hand.

322.

The same numbers her brother wrote on his hand the night he died.

Now Riley and Cole are racing across the islands — from the green volcanoes of Guadeloupe to the rain forests of Dominica — decoding a trail left by a dead man, searching for a wreck that a circle of powerful men has spent sixty-six years making sure no one ever finds. Because Surcouf went down carrying more than gold. She carried proof of a betrayal that could rewrite American history.

And the men who sank her are still in power. Still watching. Still willing to kill.

A real submarine that vanished without a trace. A real secret society. And one woman who won't stop asking questions — perfect for readers of Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Steve Berry.

Circle of Bones is Book One of the Shipwreck Adventures, an international thriller series pairing history's unsolved maritime disappearances with conspiracies that never died. Grab your copy and set sail today.