What would you do if someone is trying to kill you and you have no idea why? A romance suspense thriller that weaves murder, romance, and intrigue into a sizzling fast-paced adventure that leads all the way to the White House. Ryan McCall, a widowed father of a five-year-old daughter and a renowned quantum computer designer from the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, is kidnaped, interrogated and left for dead while attending an out-of-town computer symposium. Jennifer Taylor, the attractive emergency room physician who treats him, unwittingly gets involved in Ryan's personal nightmare. The couple's lethal dilemma leads to the involvement of a small town police detective named José Rodriguez and a skeptical FBI agent named Ron Mercer who try to solve a series of seemingly inexplicable murders before it's too late. The Stone Merchants is set in Texas, New Mexico and Washington D.C.