Publisher's Synopsis
One man pursues a question left unanswered for four thousand years. His search takes him to the gates of Hell Will it bring him back? Three weeks before officially reporting for duty at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Addison Deverell arrives in Israel determined to find an answer to a question buried for nearly four thousand years. Bound to an escort by the embassy, he is unable to begin his search as time is running out. Mere days before he must report for duty, Addison is freed from his forced escort, Hafiz IbnMansur as Elizabeth Daniels, takes his place. Addison issues an ultimatum to Elizabeth that he must go into Palestinian territory for answers he can t find in Israel. But, as Addison races to uncover a long buried truth that promises to establish a career, he faces peril from those he seeks to understand and finds himself a pawn in an international plot to drive Israel s Jews into the sea. Nearly seven thousand miles away in Oregon, Dr. Janelle Henning confronts a past that threatens to destroy the only family she s ever known. A search for understanding thrusts her into a foreign world long buried to confront a birthright hidden by the passage of time with no place or no one to turn to, Janelle tries to put the pieces of her life back together. An ill-boding call shreds the little of Janelle s world that is left, compelling her to leave her home and fly to Israel in search of Addison. But terrorists stand in Janelle s way of reaching him, the one person that might unlock hidden identities in a relationship that has spanned a lifetime. But will Addison live, or will death, the master of all, once again keep its secret buried?"
