Are you ready for life on the edge?

That's the question asked by award-winning and best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson, Janet Berliner, Matthew J. Costello, and F. Paul Wilson. The four have combined their talents to create a novel of action and adventure that Clive Cussler calls "A fascinating page-turner with enough spellbinding intrigue to last until the authors' next tale." Artifact tells the stories of a group dedicated to living life on the edge. Calling themselves the Daredevils Club, they meet every New Year's Eve to tell their most daring tales from the preceding year. 

When one member discovers a strange artifact that could change the way the world uses energy, and another member is killed hours before their annual meeting, the club decides that they'll take part in a treasure hunt for the missing pieces of the device, and hopefully discover the other member's killer in the process. Traveling the Western Hemisphere, from New York to Venezuela to Trinidad and Grenada, the members risk death at every turn, be it jungle battles with eco-terrorists, diving into deep undersea caverns, or facing off against each other, until a final climactic event on New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. All of the twists led best-selling author Larry Bond to say, "Artifact is fun, exotic, and fast. The only part of the ending you'll guess is that it's good." 

Janet Berliner started the project after a chance meeting with fellow Las Vegas resident Evel Knievel. Beginning with a thought to do an anthology of stories about daredevils, Janet contacted several of her best-selling friends, but when she, Kevin, Matt, and Paul put their heads together, they decided that the stories would work better as a novel. Thus Artifact was born. 

The result is a book of which New York Times bestseller Richard Steinberg said, "Written spectacularly, Artifact is thrilling, gloriously surprising, compelling entertaining fiction at its best ... the kind of book you'll be talking about with your friends for weeks."

Kevin J. Anderson is the international best-selling author of over fifty novels, with more than fifteen million copies in print. Janet Berliner is the award-winning author of six novels, and editor of six anthologies, including work with Joyce Carol Oates, Peter S. Beagle, and David Copperfield. Matthew J. Costello is the award-winning author of novels as well as the scriptor or designer of highly popular computer games and integrated programming such as Zoog, Disney's interactive entertainment program. F. Paul Wilson is the international best-selling author of twenty-six novels, including The Keep, the Repairman Jack novels.

To learn more about the creation process of ARTIFACT, read Janet Berliner's background story.

JANET BERLINER is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel and lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

MATTHEW COSTELLO, author of the best-selling game, The 7th Guest, lives in Kotanah, New York.

F. PAUL WILSON, best-selling author of The Keep and the Repairman Jack novels, lives in Wall, New Jersey.