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This third installment of The Floodwood Chronicles finds Artemis Fletcher once again on assignment.

What starts out as a simple gig protecting a surrealist art show in 1967 Mexico City quickly spirals into a luminous mystery involving dream therapy, curanderas, sacred markets, and a gallery of ancestors who may not be as dead as we think. Alongside the effervescent and enigmatic Viviana Villalobos, painter, healer, and possibly something else entirely, Artemis is drawn into a world where magic is real, memory is medicine, and the line between art and spirit blurs into something rich and strange.

From the bustling mercados of Mexico to moonlit dreamscapes and the surreal, visionary canvases of Remedios Varo, Pete Kennedy gives us another wild, warm-hearted ride through history, art, folklore, and high adventure. The Floodwood Chronicles continue to read like Indiana Jones teamed up with a crossbow-wielding mystic who moonlights as an art history professor.  —Gareth Branwyn, writer, editor, and author of Borg Like Me

On Floodwood Pond, deep in the heart of the Adirondacks, two scientists argue as they paddle in search of long-lost Native American artifacts. They are both members of the prestigious Strabo Society, but that's where their similarity ends. Anthony Cardonas, a rigidly self-righteous old-school explorer with political ambitions, becomes increasingly frustrated with the starry-eyed mysticism of his younger companion, Alistair Wulver. The animosity between them escalates into violence in the trackless wilderness, and a murder triggers a chain of events that unfolds over four decades in a breathless trek from New York City across Europe, Africa, East Asia and the "rooftop of the world,” the Himalayas. 

More than a crime story, "Floodwood" combines classical and folk mythology, esoteric tropes, and a touch of horror that recalls Poe and Mary Shelley. As the tale unfolds, we are introduced to Artemis Fletcher, an intrepid female professor turned crossbow-wielding secret agent who is destined to become a reader favorite.