<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">"Rapid-paced action burns from the pages where no one can be trusted and danger lurks around every turn." -Paulette Mahurin, international best-selling author of <em>The Seven Year Dress</em></strong></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">In the waning days of WWII, a Nazi officer stashes masterpieces in a bunker only to seethe for years stranded behind the Berlin Wall. Decades later, budding Mossad agent Beryl Jaffe and her banking magnate husband, Marco Bellagio, chase a tip about Nazi plundered paintings, only to make a shocking discovery-former East German Stasi agent, Werner Boesseneker, is laundering his father's stolen paintings in the new millennium.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Realizing jet-set passions are no match for Beryl's nobler pursuits in hunting Werner, Marco slowly yields to his wife's batting eyes and steely determination. Love, loyalty, and a quest for restitution drag him into the Mossad's embrace. When the couple near the truth about Werner's real identity, they must confront a dark secret of their own buried deep in East Berlin. Will either side risk exposing past crimes to win today's cat-and-mouse battle? Beryl and Marco plot traps spanning the Mid-East, Silicon Valley, and Holland as modern-day spies counter legendary espionage guile.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Jeff Ulin's thriller </span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Provenance of Ashes</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> thrusts the weight of haunting history into a marriage grappling with higher priorities. Read it now and travel into a world of shadows where the mantra never forget motivates patriots of good and evil.</span></p>