Like Indiana Jones or the Da Vinci Code prepare to be thrilled. The Peacetaker Series by Edita A. Petick is very well crafted, with twists and turns galore. With the stage set it takes off on a physical and intellectual rocket ship. Enjoy!

Doomsday Hand (Peacetaker Series Book 5)
by Edita A. Petrick
4.5 Stars (17 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Thrillers | Action & Adventure

What starts off as a dreadful murder in London soon becomes a race against time to save humanity.

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Five years ago, Dr. Stella Hunter wrote a controversial book about the ancients who believed that once in a Blue Moon a child with Peacetaker powers is born. Such child, when grown to maturity, can seed murderous madness in people’s minds by merely walking amongst them. A simple amulet activates the Peacetaker’s powers. Stella’s book was meant for the academic world. It brought her not only unwanted notoriety, and a young boy she subsequently adopted, but a new partner into her life; someone who would be the least likely companion for an academic obsessed with ancient myths and legends. Someone who’d never think that just by measuring his hand against a palm imprint on a piece of paper had the potential to doom not only him but humanity.

Less than three months into Stella’s one year guest professorship in London, her husband, retired FBI consultant, Timothy Carter, runs into an old friend while catching a taxi. It’s raining and both parties are late for their respective appointments. They make a lunch date for the next day but that meeting never happens because mere hours after meeting his friend Gregory Semple, Carter discovers he’s been murdered at the British Museum.

The police question Carter but other than his chance running into Greg, he can’t shed any light on who’d want to kill Gregory Semple.

In three months of living in London, Carter has settled into his role as house-husband and caretaker of their adopted son, Gabriel. But just to make sure his life continues to be interesting, his wife insists that he should apprentice as antiquarian bookseller and mind the shop for the owner, Louise, who is also their host for the duration of their stay in England. A few days later Carter receives a package with a mysterious black-hand-imprinted parchment, addressed to him, from his now-deceased friend. Impulsively and thinking it a joke, Carter measures his own palm against the black imprint and suddenly, unknown to him, a clock somewhere started ticking a countdown to doomsday.

As Carter attempts to figure out the importance of the strange parchment, he is thrust into a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction mess involving a billionaire’s child bride and European supermodel, a Scotland Yard Inspector, an eccentric academic, various thugs and his deceased friend’s adopted child. From the streets of London to the coast of Spain, Carter and Stella must find a way to abolish a ‘curse-disguised-as-a-gift’ that no one believed existed – until now. This time, it’s Carter’s life that is on the line because, as Stella puts it to him succinctly, 99% of humanity on Earth would kill to possess that which Carter now has — as a result of the curse and his impulsive nature.

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Arachne’s Challenge (Peacetaker Series Book 4)
by Edita A. Petrick
4.4 Stars (36 Reviews)
Genre: Thrillers

A suicide bomber strikes at an unremarkable department store in upstate California. A week later, two teenage nerds perish in a house explosion that left a crater in the ground but otherwise did little damage beyond its perimeter. Five days after the tragedy, a dying teenage car thief whispers ‘Marseille’ to the FBI agents at her bedside. Any of the three gruesome events would have seen Senior Agent Vern Saunders summoning his crack operative, Carter, once on contract to the Justice Department. Today however, Carter, lives far removed from such events. He is planning to surprise his wife, ex-history professor, Stella Hunter, with a trip to Europe to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. He’s prepared to make it into a half-working vacation because Stella has no concept of relaxation. What he’s not prepared for is to start his vacation by finding himself threatened not only by the terrorists, car thieves and artifact smugglers, but also by something that even mythology can’t explain.

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The Byzantine Connection (Peacetaker Series Book 3)
by Edita A Petrick
4.3 Stars (42 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Thrillers | Action & Adventure

Dr. Stella Hunter and her husband Carter have seen more unbelievable things in their short time together than most couples ever see in a lifetime. The incarnation of ancient myths, beasts of lore, and deadly curses follow them wherever they go, and never seem too far behind the strange happenings that keep occurring.

When Stella is brought in to consult with Father Malvan of St. Hedwig’s Church in Detroit, Carter is stunned by a strange occurrence that makes him question the limits of age and the existence of magic. The presence of a mysterious stone statue and the heartbreaking toll it takes on Father Malvan is only the beginning, as the pair begin a dangerous journey to help track down something that used to be a man until he disgraced himself by trafficking a little boy with a curse on his head.

At the crossroads of miracles and curses, Stella and Carter must confront the stunning reality that nothing is ever as it seems… and retribution may not be merely death. Their original plan was to continue gathering material for Stella’s next book on texts and treasures in antiquarian bookshops and libraries, but once a mysterious call comes in the middle of the night, research-gathering takes a backseat.

Danger lurks in even the holiest of places, as Stella and Carter once again face the reality of hell on Earth when curses fly and the souls of men hang in the balance.

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The Harmony Scroll (Peacetaker Series Book 2)
by Edita A. Petrick
4.4 Stars (80 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Thrillers | Action & Adventure

Stella Hunter’s adopted son was born with a curse. The curse lies dormant within him and the amulets that awaken it have been destroyed, but the curse is still a death sentence shadowing Gabriel’s life. Stella discovers Gabriel can be free of the curse forever. But the golden scroll holding the incantation that can free him was lost twelve hundred years ago.

It’s why, almost a year to date from the time Carter braved a horrible blizzard just to be able to knock on Stella Hunter’s door, the two are following a trail again — this time searching for a mysterious scroll that a few unreliable historians documented in the course of time. The incantation seared into the gold or calfskin scroll (no two historians can agree on the medium) is a powerful tenet, thought to be capable of removing all curses, ancient and modern. Stella clings to her belief that she’ll be able to find the lost scroll. She’ll then read the incantation seared into it by the Almighty’s hand and the Peacetaker curse will dissipate. Carter thinks she’s being insanely optimistic, but follows in her footsteps because more than one life depends on his protection. He’s not wholly convinced that the eight year old boy Stella adopted is the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, but as a father who lost his teenage daughter to tragedy, he’s still struggling with guilt.

In this fast-paced, action packed adventure, nothing is as it seems and everyone Carter and Stella come across, seems to be wearing a mask… that seldom remains in place long enough for Carter to figure out whether they’re facing a friend or foe.

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Ribbons of Death (Peacetaker Series Book 1)
by Edita A. Petrick
4.5 Stars (180 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Thrillers | Action & Adventure

A career soldier who survived a deadly riot in Cairo, and a reclusive mythology expert from Montana, race against time to find the product of legends that’s cutting a bloody path across the continent.
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One snowy evening, a stranger with a horribly scarred face stomps on the porch of Stella Hunter’s house, holding her latest book of myths and legends. He points to the bloody fingerprints of the book’s now deceased owner, marking a passage of the Peacetaker myth. When she asks how he came by the book, he tells her he took the controversial book from the lifeless hand of a traffic fatality in Cairo. And suddenly, Stella could swear that somewhere a clock started ticking down to doomsday. After all, the fate of humanity depends on whether she was right or wrong when she wrote her infamous book.

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