Arachne's Challenge

A mythological entity thought to be pure myth, forces Stella and Carter to take a deadly challenge. A suicide bomber strikes at an unremarkable department store in upstate California. Five days after the tragedy, a dying teenage car thief whispers ‘Marseilles’ to the FBI agents at her bedside. Any of the these gruesome events would have seen Senior Agent Vern Saunders summoning his crack operative, Carter, once on contract to the Justice Department. Today however, Carter, lives far removed from such events. He is planning to surprise his wife, ex-history professor, Stella Hunter, with a trip to Europe to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. He’s prepared to make it into a half-working vacation because Stella has no concept of relaxation. What he’s not prepared for is to start his vacation by finding himself threatened not only by the terrorists, car thieves and artifact smugglers, but also by something that even mythology can’t explain.