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Title: The Last Ember
Author/website: Daniel Levin
Thanks to author Daniel Levin and Katie from Riverhead Books I have 5 copies of The Last Ember to giveaway. The details:

• US addresses only. Sorry no Canadian or international entries for this one.
• Open until Friday, September 18th.

Good luck everyone!

In The Last Ember’s opening pages an Italian antiquities squad discovers a woman’s preserved corpse inside an ancient column. Pages torn from priceless manuscripts litter the floor of an abandoned warehouse. Meanwhile, across the Mediterranean, an illegal excavation burrows beneath Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, ground sacred to three religions.

Jonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among less scrupulous antiquities dealers. But when he is summoned to Rome, the above events propel him on a perilous journey from the labyrinth beneath the Colosseum to the Biblical-era tunnels of Jerusalem in search of a hidden artifact that has been missing for 2,000 years.

As Marcus and a passionate U.N preservationist, Dr. Emili Travia, dig more deeply into the past, they’re stunned to discover not only an ancient intelligence operation to protect the artifact, but also a ruthless modern plot to destroy all trace of it by a mysterious radical bent on erasing all remnants of Jewish and Christian presence from the Temple Mount.

With a cutting-edge plot as intricately layered as the ancient sites it explores, The Last Ember is a riveting tale spanning the high-stakes worlds of archaeology, politics and terrorism in its portrayal of the modern struggle to define—and redefine—history itself.