Ancient Shadows

Seven men in an old photograph. Six are dead. The seventh is running out of time. When powerful men begin dying in grotesque and inexplicable ways, archaeologist Michael Rempart recognizes the pattern before anyone else does. The deaths trace back to a single photograph-seven young sailors decades ago-and a secret none of them left behind. Then a dying priest presses a bloodstained photo and a crimson pearl into Rempart's hands. The pearl is no relic. It is the legendary Philosopher's Stone...