Petroleum expert, Rebecca Belmont, discovers an ancient underwater city. She and her colleagues try to uncover the secrets of the ruins, but are tormented by mysterious and lethal setbacks. The ruins are linked by another adventure 7,500 years earlier by Shem and his quest to bring his tribe to safety from a devastating plague. Love, deceit, misfortune, and triuph connect past to present in this suspenseful novel...The Sanctuary