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Former school chums, Rae and Michael must put aside old wounds when they discover Michael's father might have been murdered—and the souvenir deck of cards from Rae's Egyptian vacation could be the reason the old man is dead.

When American Rae Lambers takes a shortcut through a drought-stricken oasis in Egypt, she looks down to see a golden box sticking out of the lake bottom. Rae chips away the dried mud and picks up the box. Little does she know she has uncovered the Forbidden Tarot, a cursed set of cards that was thrown into the water thousands of years earlier to protect the world from evil.

A week before the fabulous Flight of Fancy Charity Auction in Sonoma, California, someone kills a counterfeiter concocting fakes of very expensive wine. Wine expert Sarah McKee is called in to help identify the victim—if she can. Whoever killed him took his wallet, car, and computer—as well as his face. What they didn’t take was a list in the dead man’s pocket—a mystifying series of numbers, circles and checkmarks.

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