Lost Cities: Four Novellas of Danger and Discovery
By Charles B. Croley

Lost Cities thrusts you into four tales of bold explorers clashing with ancient enigmas. The Dust of the Veiled Age trails Percival Winthrop, a prudish 1925 scholar, into a jungle ruin where voluptuous stone women guard a sphere that looses a spectral past, hounding him to the coast. Daughters of the Deep follows Henry Whitaker in 1936, a wiry adventurer tracing maps to the Rub' al Khali's dunes, seeking Iram of the Pillars amid sand-swept secrets. City of the Mounds tracks a 1942 British patrol lost in the Sahara, their war mission unraveling as they stumble toward ancient mounds in a sea of scrub. Jungle Queens and Golden Greed pits 1949 treasure hunter Rusty Malone against Xalora's curvaceous priestesses, his gold haul a curse he buries with their city.

These novellas fuse pulp grit with eerie tension—cracked relics, desert myths, and jungle queens with stunning figures wielding deadly power. For readers craving rugged quests and pasts that strike back, Lost Cities offers a fierce, unforgettable plunge into the unknown.