In Rob Dakin's modern thriller, Vale of Shadows, readers are introduced to 20th Century Istanbul, six teenagers, and a corpse. It is the 1950's, and young Altin Guler understands that murder is afoot, having witnessed what appeared to be a killing of supernatural devise with five of his friends on the dark streets of Istanbul. Never in his imagination could he have expected to be thrust into a drama so frightening that he would leave his beloved Turkey, and flee to America. Mystery and unanswered questions abound until, decades later, when his son Jeff Smith, returns to Turkey as part of an...

War is coming, and once again Jeff, Aubrey, and Orhan find themselves in a deadly struggle they could neither anticipate nor avoid. Three years before, in Vale of Shadows, they barely survived a curse placed on their families five hundred years before during the Ottoman invasion of Albania. At that time, Jeff kept a trinket that belonged to the djinn, now that careless act has put him, Aubrey, and Orhan in grave danger, and the djinn are relentless in their pursuit to retrieve what is theirs. As the trio struggle for answers and survival their quest has them dodging the djinn at every turn...