aka Shattered Icon
An antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake (the hero) and marine historian Zola Khan (the heroine) have to decode an encrypted 400-year-old journal in order to find a religious relic (the "icon"). Of course, there are also some really nasty bad guys trying to steal the journal and using violence to force Harry and Zola to turn the journal over to them. Later, when Harry and Zola are getting close to finding the relic, the bad guys get even nastier. There are actually two stories in in this book: one is the here-and-now story about Harry, Zola and the bad guys. The other is the 400-year-old story told by the journal, describing an expedition from England to The New World, an expedition shrouded in secrecy and full of conflicts. The journal tells an exciting story and gives clues about the religious relic that was hidden/lost 400 years ago.

Release #143 for 2017 ...