Some secrets can kill. For Doctor Michael Banks, the price for his secrets could be his soul. As bio-terror ravages the Amazon, Michael's request for assistance from Project Prometheus brings him the unlikeliest of saviors -- a woman born of the desert, who might just hold the key to his redemption. Their partnership opens the path to stopping a chemical nightmare in its tracks, and a mysterious saboteur's mischief making turns deadly. As the danger mounts, Michael will have to decide if his absolution is worth risking everything he holds dear, and a future he can't live without.

Author Biography

While unpublished until her twenties, Esther Mitchell spent her life dreaming of writing. As a young child, she learned to read on such classics as Gawain & the Green Knight and Beowulf. Raised in Europe, with its wide exposure to mythology, history, and the paranormal, she quickly became fascinated by the lore of the unseen, eventually translating into an educational background in parapsychology and a lifetime of study and practice in spiritual healing and counseling. Life in a fast-paced, on-the-edge military community ingrained her with both an intimate understanding of the military world, and the ability to craft edgy suspense. At the age of eight, she fell in love with romance, and by the time she was twelve, she had already penned the first of a series of Arthurian romances, and was working on what would later become the futuristic suspense series, Underground. Always dedicated foremost to her writing, she writes under her real name, and has completed about thirty novels to date, of which ten have previously been published, with more to come. Reviewers and fans alike have dubbed her work "exciting," "edge of your seat" and "daring."