The Morning Star — Michael Wenberg

Fisherman Nick Savitch pops in to see his friends the nuns at a monastery on an island in remote Alaska, only to find them all dead ... except for a mysterious ageless woman with striking green eyes and a young girl willing to go to any lengths to protect her. It turns out some of the scariest folks on earth are after the woman also known as the Morning Star, and their chase takes them from islands in the Gulf of Alaska to the heavily guarded confines of a Moscow hospital. This story has got all the historical intrigue of The DaVinci Code (without the deep detours into church history) and all the fast-paced action of a Jack Reacher story--only with richer, more interesting characters.