Melissa Embry is a former journalist living in Dallas, Texas, whose short fiction has appeared in numerous print and online venues. She blogs about the North Texas literary scene and classic genre tales at http://nojobforsissies.blogspot.com/. The Tomb of the Khan is her first novel.

Tomb of Kahn

As the Great War ends, forces of the defeated Ottoman Empire withdraw from Jerusalem. Among those adrift in the chaos of the ancient city is American expatriate Jack Solms, who reckons his wartime service left him with three souvenirs: a wounded leg, a case of shell shock, and a wife who increasingly regrets their hasty war wedding.

When a stranger hires him for an expedition to the site of an ancient tomb, Jack hopes the adventure and the money will turn his life around and help win back the love of his wife, Isabelle. Only he soon begins to wonder if the stranger’s interest is in rescuing Allied prisoners of war as he says, or in the secret of Isabelle’s family; that she is the last descendent of the great Mongol khans and heir to the long-lost gold they looted from Baghdad centuries ago.

Worse, he fears that the beautiful and estranged Isabelle has caught the stranger’s eye.

But even Jack isn’t suspicious enough to believe suggestions that the stranger is a rogue Ottoman agent with plans to resurrect the dying empire. That would be crazy…or would it? https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/melissa-embry