The Granite Key

Arkana Archaeology Thrillers: Volume 1 - The Granite Key In THE GRANITE KEY, an antique dealer is murdered for a mysterious cipher stone that reveals the location of a collection of ancient artifacts. The victim's sister Cassie is stunned when she learns about her sibling's double life as an Arkana agent. She's even more stunned to discover the role she's about to play in helping the Arkana recover the cache. Along with two field agents, she travels to Crete to hunt for clues, unaware that ruthless foes are only steps behind. Cassie and her new team have only hours to find what they seek before a Minoan crypt buries them along with their quest.

The Arkana series is a seven book treasure hunt that spans 12,000 years of lost human history. What's it all about? Take one secret organization trying to reconstruct humanity's cultural roots and mix with a fanatical cult intent on destroying civilization altogether. Both believe the solution to their problem is a lost relic known as the sage stone. Part history lesson, part mystery, the books tell the story of our forgotten past. Spanning every continent for the last dozen millennia, they reveal cultures most people never knew existed. Prepare to be amazed. Technologically advanced, peace loving, gender balanced. Who were those people? More importantly, why and when did we stop being like them? Those mysteries and many others will be solved if you're ready to enter the world of the Arkana.The series begins with a murder over a stone artifact known as the granite key. The race to decrypt the key leads two rival teams from America's heartland to the islands of Greece in search of a 3,000 year old riddle waiting to be solved. Solving the riddle is where the real mystery begins.

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing models of the earthquake of the earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global. Such models provide powerful new tools for the study of earthquake precursory phenomena and the earthquake cycle. Through workshops, collaborations and publications the APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulations (ACES) aims to develop realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process, thus providing a "virtual laboratory" to probe earthquake behavior. Part I of the book covers microscopic simulations, scaling physics and earthquake generation and cycles. This part also focuses on plate processes and earthquake generation from a macroscopic standpoint.

Teenaged detectives Joe and Frank Hardy uncover a plot to sabotage a ski resort.