The Vermeer Effect

Richard Robles has everything he could ever want: a wife, a son, money and health, happiness. But behind the facade lies an obsession with the secrets of a dark and sinister world-the world of the Syndycate. For centuries, the thirteen members of the Syndycate have decided the course of our history and destined our future, shaping society to the image of their liking. From conflict, the Syndycate formed her order, and from that order she exerts her will. But the Syndycate is suddenly in peril as the scars of old wounds and a new hunger for power have awakened a dark shadow from a time and place long ago abandoned to oblivion. That Shadow has come for Richard and he must choose: between what he will suffer, and what he will lose. He is the only one who can stand against the Syndycate and the dark forces that would unravel the very tapestry of human civilization with the single tug of a thread.