Silent Footprints

This is the fourth in a series of novels, portraying the Giuseppe Geovanni family. “The Fourth Element,” followed by, “One True North,” followed by, “When Love Dies,” to this, the latest, “Silent Footprints.” Never more evident is the Patriarch Giuseppe Geovanni’s, dreams, determination and love for adventure as well as his brilliant mind made more clear, than in “Silent Footprints.”

“When Love Dies,” left Blue Mullins Cummings, an ex CIA Clandestine Operative and Giuseppe’s great, great granddaughter, kidnapped by Al-Qaeda operatives. In payment for the lives Blue and her CIA agent partner, Tom Hayes, took in Budapest, Hungary and Paris, France, the Al-Qaeda operatives are determined to take her life as they did her partners. But first, they want her to suffer.

Under the mantle of newly fallen snow on a Texas Ranch, in broad open daylight, the operatives kidnap Blue and kill her dog, Rinney. Their motive for payback was never more clear than leaving the dog lying dead in the drive and the only clue to Blue’s whereabouts are their silent footprints in the snow.

Unbeknownst to the Al-Qaeda operatives, Blue is pregnant. A fact she is determined to keep to herself for as long as she can, because she fears they will purposely harm her baby. Blue’s husband Bud, her Momma Bella and Stepdad Travis, are devastated by their loss. Bud and Travis load their weapons and prepare for war as Bella flies to Washington to speak with the CIA about obtaining their help in finding Blue and obtaining her freedom. They have no way of knowing Blue received a severe blow to her head and was left for dead. The blow resulted in Blue having total amnesia. When she woke she didn’t know who or where she was.

As the search for Blue magnifies, Bella, Bud and Travis, are up to their necks in danger, conspiracy and intrigue as their quest leads down a dusty road, in a foreign country, where nothing is as it seems and death is an everyday occurrence.