A solitary man, intent on inflicting a major catastrophe on the United States in retaliation for the death of his wife and two children in a US bombing raid on his mideastern city of residence, has arrived in Canada surreptitiously on a small fishing boat. With the help of a Quebec Islamic militant group, he plans to cross the border into Vermont and hike the Appalachian Trail to New York. Jon Richards, a Homeland Security agent, has picked up hints from a myriad of web conversations between militant jihadist groups that a terrorist might have made it to the North American Continent. His instincts, usually reliable, convince him this is serious, but no one within the agency will believe his theory of a plot. He desperately connives to get permission to follow his hunch. Adam and Luke Langford from Livingston, New York have taken to the Appalachian Trail hiking north to escape from the police. Luke is being sought on suspicion of the murder of a small, sexually assaulted girl. Teri and Jim Collins, faculty members of Kensington college in Berkeley, are vacationing in Vermont hiking inn to inn. On several prior vacations, they have become entangled in a series of crimes not of their making. They are in hopes this will not happen on their current trip. Initially they find the scenery beautiful, the exercise stimulating, the meals delicious and most of the fellow hikers delightful companions. But suddenly Jennifer, daughter of fellow hikers Ted and Lisa Moore, has disappeared on the trail. Is Luke the culprit? The terrorist and his companion, the brothers trying to escape from the police, the kidnapped child's distraught parents, the young Homeland Security Officer and the various inn to inn hikers-all are on a collision course as they hike the trails of this novel.

An angry man returns to the gorgeous Greek island of Rhodes. His mission? To retrieve a treasure hidden in tunnels under the Medieval City and to get revenge on the 'bitch' who betrayed him to the police. Due to their past unpleasant experiences with untrustworthy and violent men, six professional women living on the island have banded together as the 'Solo Sisters'. Which of these women is the mysterious stranger's former lover and intended victim? The reader is treated to a tension building saga of old hates and new crimes. The novel's plot is full of twists and turns just like the tunnels and an assortment of bizarre characters leap off the pages. The reader will be fascinated by the drama unfolding on the cobblestone pathways, through the narrow arched passages and in the hidden courtyards of the Medieval City. The tunnels and the possibility of hidden treasure are the focus of the characters throughout the book which end with an explosive confrontation in the underground's spooky burrows that wind under the centuries old walled city of Rhodes.