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Charles "Tex" Ravencroft, archaeologist and adventurer, has run across a lot of strange things in his time, but nothing could have prepared him for a discovery he makes on a remote island in the Pacific. A single, tear-shaped gemstone made out of a material that's not supposed to exist catapults him into the middle of one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Legend holds that three such gemstones can unlock the location of a city lost thousands of years ago. Yet even as he searches for answers there are those who will stop at nothing to keep the secret buried forever.

Popular fiction is filled with images of archaeologists as daring adventurers who constantly risk life and limb in the pursuit of fabulous antiquities of immense historical and monetary value. There are evil villains, great romances, and unknown perils lurking around every corner. That's the view many people have of archaeology. What is the truth, though, behind the myth and why have the myths persisted for so long? In this book you'll explore: The fictions surrounding archeology Why we as people love and perpetuate those fictions. What the truth behind the fiction really is. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Come along and explore both.

Archaeologist Charles "Tex" Ravencroft's search for the clues that will unlock the mystery of Atlantis has taken him halfway around the world. Everywhere he goes, though, shadowy figures are intent on stopping him at any cost. The sudden appearance of a specter from his past just complicates things and caught between two dangerous women he can no longer tell friend from foe. Time is running out for him and for the city he would seek to save.