Daria McGowan is an archaeologist who has been traveling
all over the world on digs for many years. While on an
expedition in Iran, Daria receives a fax from Howe
University in Pennsylvania that they want to showcase her
great-grandfather's artifacts in their museum. The
artifacts were recovered a century ago and are the only
remains from a lost colony called Shandihar.
Daria returns to the US to work on getting the showcase
together for an exhibit. While going through the inventory
of artifacts, she realizes there are pieces missing. Daria
calls FBI agent Connor Shields to investigate the case.
She met Connor two years ago on a blind date. He rushes to
her rescue and works with her to help recover the missing
artifacts.
While searching for the missing pieces, the case becomes
more complicated when Daria and Connor find a trail of
murders that link to the missing artifacts. Who knows
about Shandihar and would kill to own these rare
artifacts? During the case, Daria and Connor get to know
each other better and start to develop feelings. Will they
recover the artifacts or will they become another casualty
in a murder's quest to get their hands on the priceless
pieces?
The murderer is making it look like these murders are
ritualistic and in retaliation for their homeland
artifacts being taken from them. The suspect list grows as
the story progresses. No one can be trusted and the
artifacts must be guarded by high security. Is the
murderer someone on the inside or a stranger unknown to
them? Will they continue their murdering spree undetected
by the FBI and police?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading LAST BREATH. It was
fascinating, captivating, and intriguing from the first
page to the last. I found all the archeology facts to be
well researched and intelligently written. The romance
between Daria and Connor was a small part of the book,
with the quest to find the artifacts being the main
storyline. I was pleasantly surprised by the ending and
that makes this a well crafted novel. This was my first
experience with a book by Mariah Stewart and I will
definitely read her previous books.
As renowned archaeologist Dr. Daria McGowan readies the
most important project of her career—a museum exhibit
showcasing the priceless artifacts her great-grandfather
unearthed a century ago in the Middle East—she makes a
shocking discovery: many of the most significant pieces
have vanished. Panicked, Daria turns to the FBI.
It's an assignment that Special Agent Connor Shields is
more than happy to accept: Daria is the same pretty
American archaeologist he's been searching for ever since a
chance meeting two years ago. Working together to track
down the owners of the stolen artifacts, Daria and Connor
discover a trail of bodies—collectors who have met brutal,
bizarre ends at the hands of a killer whose murderous
methods are based on the rituals of an ancient
civilization.
Amid rumors of a curse and mounting pressure from both the
FBI and the museum, Daria and Connor race to unmask their
enemy and unravel a mystery stretching across oceans and
centuries. All the while, an ingenious murderer follows a
sinister plan to gather the coveted antiquities, and one
last acquisition: Daria.
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