The Trident Venture crew travels to Japan for a new adventure...with frightening results.
A disturbing prophecy sends a treasure hunting duo on an urgent race to rescue a country in Kaylin McFarren’s heart pounding new novel, Buried Threads. Full of erotic suspense and wild adventures, this is one trip that readers will never forget!
Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen work together as the successful owners of a treasure hunting company. But a seemingly simple assignment – to track down a priceless gem that is believed to buried in a shipwreck deep within the Sea of Japan – takes a starling, and dangerous, turn.
Faced with a monk’s dark prophecy that a natural disaster will soon strike Japan, killing millions, Rachel and Chase must embark on the mission of a lifetime in order to uncover the three cursed samurai swords that can avert the catastrophe.
Chaos ensues as their adventure takes them from shark infested waters and creepy caves to haunted hidden tombs and a confrontation with Yakuza gang members.
Time is running out as the prophecy’s day of reckoning draws near. Will Rachel and Chase succeed before disaster strikes?
Excerpt
“After it sank, Mitsui issued a recovery reward, but no one responded. He announced to the press that all he wanted was the title to his yacht so he could sign it over to the boat’s rescuer and eventual new owner. Still no one came forward. With Chase telling him you’re here to investigate the possibility of bringing it up, Mitsui honestly believes Shinzo is doing him this huge favor as a way to pay back his debt. He has no idea about the swords or why his nephew and I were on board in the first place. His vent in regard to the boat’s contents was done strictly to test both of you and to find out what your true motives were in coming here.”
“And his nephew?” Chase asked.
“He didn’t make it out alive.”
“Why’s that?”
“I didn’t know about the Templars until we were on our way back to the boat. The only thing I could figure out is my blood must’ve drawn them or the guts from the fish the sharks were feeding on. Before I knew it, they were swarming. Kazumi tried to keep them away, but they shredded his arm in seconds flat. I honestly thought we were both going to die. Then a goblin shark came out of nowhere and chased them all away. I managed to get Kazumi back to the boat, but he was in bad shape by then.”
Rachel drew her head into her shoulders like the bellows of an accordion. “What the hell are Templars?”
“They’re flesh-ripping eels.”
“Are you nuts?” Rachel snapped. “Why would anyone subject themselves to that?”
“I know it sounds scary, but I assure you I’ll be more than ready this time.”
“Indiana Jones, goblin sharks, and now Templars?” Rachel rhetorically asked. She shot Chase a “what the fuck have you gotten me into” look. “No wonder the stone’s worth two million dollars. No one in their right mind would touch it.”
Yuki’s shoulders drooped and she lowered her head. “I guess that means you’re out then.”
Rachel nodded. “I’m sorry, but this is absolutely insane. Even if we manage to recover Kokora, get in and out of the tomb with the other two swords, and avoid being eaten alive, how are we going to keep from running into your yakuza friends and being chopped into tiny bits? Oh, wait…silly me. We’ll all have swords, so we can battle our way out.”
“Miss Lyons!” the monk’s authoritative voice boomed from behind.
Rachel’s jaw slackened, stunned by his sudden outburst. As she turned to face him, Shinzo rose to his feet.
“Please, I beg of you,” he implored. “Have faith in her…just as she has in you.”
Professional Reviews
Must Read Faster
This is a wonderful read, and I cannot wait to crack into Severed Threads!
Jamie Leigh Hansen, author of Betrayed
Exciting, dangerous and sexy!
ForeWord Reviews/Clarion Review
Kaylin McFarren has raised the bar for the erotic thriller with an action-and character-driven story.
Buried Threads, an erotic thriller, combines the action and adventure found in a Clive Cussler novel, the plotting and romance of Danielle Steel’s books, and the erotic energy and supernatural elements of a work by Shayla Black. Equally plot and character driven, it has a superb balance of action, character reflection, and introspection.
While their romantic and working relationship appears to be strained, professional divers and treasure hunters Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen are hired by a mysterious monk to travel to Japan and recover three ancient swords. Priceless, the swords are instrumental in stopping an ancient prophecy that foretells the destruction of Japan. To reach the swords, Rachel and Chase swim through hungry goblin sharks and flesh-eating eels to the underwater entrance of a secret temple. There, they face evil entities and Indiana Jones-like traps and obstacles, such as poison darts and deadly blades, poised to cut them to pieces. Thwarted at every turn, Rachel and Chase must stop apocalyptic forces from annihilating Japan.
Buried Threads, the follow-up novel to Kaylin McFarren’s Severed Threads, contains enough backstory about the main characters, Rachel and Chase, that it is not necessary to have read the previous novel. Expert writing allows moments where the reader is given access to each major character’s thoughts. These shifts in perspective and pace are done effortlessly, without the character going off in a direction extraneous to the gist of the story.
The novel is not formulaic. True, it has explicit sex scenes, but they are not gratuitous. The eroticism is enhanced by the variety of emotional relationships between the characters that engage in sexual congress throughout. Rachel’s and Chase’s loving connection is beautifully contrasted with the intense relationship of ritual and submission between Mariko, a geisha, and Kenji, a wealthy Japanese businessman with yakuza ties. McFarren writes, “Kenji was her danna, her master. The man who had agreed to pay twenty thousand dollars for each of her seasonal kimonos, provide her housing, and address all of her needs...She had resigned herself to her fate. There would be no looking back, no shameful regrets...not unless she was willing to negate their agreement and destroy the reputation she valued more than life itself.”
Filled with vivid descriptions that jump off the page, Buried Threads makes Japan a character in the novel. With a Janus-like split personality, modern Japan is described as having elements of old Japan, like honor and tradition, wedded with the influences of Western society and high technology. McFarren writes, “It seemed the only product sold here was pleasure. In both directions were bars, hostess clubs, pachinko parlors, and Turkish-style baths. It was a postmodern red light district complete with air conditioning, piped-in music and automated doormen.” Ironically, Rachel and Chase, who are American, must save this new hybrid Japan from old, malevolent magic with good magic.
McFarren, also the author of the novel Flaherty’s Crossing, has raised the bar for the erotic thriller. - Lee Golden
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