In this newest action thriller, “e-llegal treasures,” Mat gets lured into a distant war by the stunning reappearance of her brother Sam, who disappeared 15 years ago. He and her former lover, Curt, have been sent to find a stash of stolen diamonds. If Curt and Sam don’t return them, innocent people will die. Sam asks Mat to decipher a computer disk he found on the body of a murdered courier, which puts her in danger from those who want to protect the data it contains. With the bodies piling up, Mat and her brother are in a race against time to find the diamonds and return them.
“It’s ‘Romancing the Stone’ for readers – especially those who remember the dot-com boom and the other technological excitement of the 1990’s,” said Alba.
The title will be available as an e-book and paperback, with preorders for e-book only. Both formats will publish exclusively on Amazon this Black Friday: November 28, 2025.
A resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, C.V. is a former information technology professor and a registered gemologist with the International School of Gemology. More information about the author is available at cvalba.com.
