She
Chapter One
The most powerful book in the history of humankind had
vanished-on Blaze Williams's watch.
He slammed his palms on his father's cylinder desk, anger
chasing fear through his veins. The antique framed photos
jumped across the aged mahogany, as did the yellowed files.
Blaze had lost the Canticles Al Farasakh.
He couldn't believe the wonder he'd let slip through his
hands. Murad II made peace with the Karaman Emirate in Anatolia
after years of bloody war with the book. Thomas Jefferson
helped build a nation with the book's knowledge. Nelson
Mandela had read smuggled copies of its pages and used its wisdom
to demolish apartheid.
But now it was gone. After two hundred years of care by
Blaze's family, it was gone.
With a sigh, Blaze sat back in the heavy chair, and the cushion
shifted under his ass. His dad belonged here, not him, and
all the frustration in the world wouldn't bring his father back to
life, wouldn't change the cold, hard facts-his dad was gone,
and so was the book.
Still he opened the bottom drawer, as he'd done at least five
times since he'd come ba ... read full excerpt from She ebook
