


The Queen's Eye by Jane Alden
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Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal's Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Cass and Ari return to the Valley of the Kings in search of the missing eye from Nefertiti's three-thousand-year-old bust. Cass is determined to restore the queen's perfection and return the bust from Berlin to the Egyptian people. Leftover Hitler Youth and cutthroat antiquity thieves pursue the two from Germany to Egypt to New York City. Did the eye ever really exist? Can Cass persuade Germany to return the queen to Egypt? Will Cass and Ari's relationship deepen? Join the two antiquities sleuths in their quest for answers.
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Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal's Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Cass and Ari return to the Valley of the Kings in search of the missing eye from Nefertiti's three-thousand-year-old bust. Cass is determined to restore the queen's perfection and return the bust from Berlin to the Egyptian people. Leftover Hitler Youth and cutthroat antiquity thieves pursue the two from Germany to Egypt to New York City. Did the eye ever really exist? Can Cass persuade Germany to return the queen to Egypt? Will Cass and Ari's relationship deepen? Join the two antiquities sleuths in their quest for answers.
Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal's Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Cass and Ari return to the Valley of the Kings in search of the missing eye from Nefertiti's three-thousand-year-old bust. Cass is determined to restore the queen's perfection and return the bust from Berlin to the Egyptian people. Leftover Hitler Youth and cutthroat antiquity thieves pursue the two from Germany to Egypt to New York City. Did the eye ever really exist? Can Cass persuade Germany to return the queen to Egypt? Will Cass and Ari's relationship deepen? Join the two antiquities sleuths in their quest for answers.
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Jane Alden was born and raised in a small Mississippi River Delta community in Arkansas where everyone knew everyone else. After graduating from the University of Arkansas, she taught 7th grade English in Porterville, California, and later moved to Los Angeles to begin a career in health care management. After many lucky circumstances and thanks to wonderful mentors, she became a successful hospital administrator and is presently an executive coach.
Jane and her partner of thirty years live in a small town thirty miles east of metropolitan Los Angeles. Their chocolate lab, Delilah, is the captain of the domestic ship.
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Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal's Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Cass and Ari return to the Valley of the Kings in search of the missing eye from Nefertiti's three-thousand-year-old bust. Cass is determined to restore the queen's perfection and return the bust from Berlin to the Egyptian people. Leftover Hitler Youth and cutthroat antiquity thieves pursue the two from Germany to Egypt to New York City. Did the eye ever really exist? Can Cass persuade Germany to return the queen to Egypt? Will Cass and Ari's relationship deepen? Join the two antiquities sleuths in their quest for answers.
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