CHECK MATE, THE FIRST IN A TWO-PART SAGA, SWEEPS ACROSS NEARLY THREE CENTURIES OF HISTORY, WEAVING MYSTERY, LOVE, AND HUMAN STRUGGLE INTO A TALE THAT STRETCHES FROM THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE.

SET AGAINST THE TURBULENT BACKDROP OF LATVIA AND THE BALTIC, WHERE EMPIRES CLASHED AND FREEDOM WAS RELENTLESSLY CONTESTED, THIS NOVEL BLENDS FACT AND FOLKLORE, PHILOSOPHY AND IMAGINATION. IN A WORLD WHERE EVERY CHARACTER IS CONNECTED, CHECK MATE INVITES READERS TO PIECE TOGETHER THE THREADS OF HISTORY, HUMANITY, AND DESTINY.