Raising Abel — Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

ONE TERRIFIED CHILD
Veronica Tremain's nightmare begins with a phone call. Her anthropologist brother, Dr. Scott Ferris, has been savagely murdered. Within days other scientists on three continents start to die or disappear, and their labs and notes are destroyed. Suddenly, a little boy appears at Veronica's home -- Scott's adopted son, Abel. Hours later, assassins strike.

ONE DEADLY SECRET
Now Veronica and Abel are on the run in a world with no refuge, hunted by death squads bold enough to slaughter F.B.I. agents. The killers have one mission: murder Abel...and everybody who has met, seen, or merely heard of him. Because somehow Abel holds the secret to an ancient mystery, an astonishing truth that will forever change humanity's future -- if anyone survives to reveal it...