The Relentless Sun
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The Relentless Sun is the 4th installment of the Harry Thursday series, and the first to be self-published. I will post a chapter a week every Tuesday beginning February 6th, at 10 AM, hoping to entice readers to purchase a copy through Amazon or my website, (when that service becomes available).
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While searching for things to use in her homemade jewelry, Hok'ee, a young Navajo woman stumbles onto a hidden deposit of rare rubies scattered near the foot of the O'Leary's Peak north of Flagstaff Arizona.
This innocent discovery unleashes a series of events, more cataclysmic than anyone involved could have imagined, and leads the intrepid archaeologist, Harry Thursday, from his peaceful home on the Greek island of Seprios and into the underworld of human greed and political corruption.
With Sun, his beautiful Hopi guide, Harry discovers that - like an iceberg - there is often more beneath the surface than above, and choosing the correct path can be the difference between life and death.
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