With all the horrible news from around the world, how about something a little more fun? I’m fairly certain that Mission 3 of the Castle of Spies series should be on Amazon.com in about 60 days. I’m hoping for a mid May release date. There are a few more chapters that need writing and then there is the endless skimming for type-o’s. Now that the blurb is taking shape, it’s almost time to contact the cover designers. The new cover will match the first two with the city skyline coming from Athens and a ‘hidden’ desert castle in the circle/scope above the title. Of course, one of the hardest parts is the back cover blurb. I’ve been slowly assembling those carefully written sentences and should have that set up soon. I’ll send you the cover in a few weeks and then mark your calendars for May 15th through the 30th for CASTLE IN THE DESERT! Till then, here the current evolution of the back cover blurb ...

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Castle of Spies - Mission 3 - Castle in the Desert
A Deserted Castle, A Few Ghosts, A Lot More Spies and Two Best Friends.

BEST FRIENDS TORN APART! As elite spy Tara Wells recovers from two bullets shot into her leg, her best friend and fellow elite spy Léa Taylor remains a prisoner, cuffed and shackled in a medieval jail cell, her captors cruelly starving her to death. The only clue to Léa’s location is the daily movie file that arrives Tara's in-box showing her best friend's slow, agonizing death.

After hours of painstaking study, a flash of light in the video reveals the location of Lea's prison and The Castle's agents plan a daring rescue from an impregnable prison fortress. The late night desert rescue reveals a nest of traitors who flipped on the elite spy agency. One of the traitors is captured, while the other vanishes into thin air. i

Mission 3 of The Castle of Spies adventures takes you from the stormy shore of the North Atlantic, to the desert of Saudi Arabia, to a frozen island in the forbidden Russian town of Archangel, to Athens, to Sweden and finally to the fiords of Norway. Léa and Tara’s descent into the shadow world of spies will take you on a harrowing rescue mission in the skies above a Castle in the Desert to rescue a best friend. But to capture the the traitor that got away, Léa and Tara must come out of the shadow world of spies and into the blinding light as the world’s newest Instagram Influencers.