ANNA MARY CROFT — GUARDIAN OF TOMORROW

Oxford, 1897.

Long before Indiana Jones ever put on a fedora, his mother was already chasing mysteries of her own.

Anna Mary Croft is a twenty-one-year-old American scholar studying at Oxford and working with the Ashmolean Museum, where strange antiquities, disputed relics, coded telegrams, and whispered legends have an inconvenient habit of finding their way onto her desk.

Born into the American branch of the remarkable Croft family, Anna is the niece of explorer and antiquarian T. E. Croft—and a distant relative of the line that will one day produce Lara Croft. She inherited the family curiosity, courage, and appetite for hidden truths, but developed a philosophy entirely her own:

Discovery creates responsibility.

Warm, intelligent, adventurous, and quietly formidable, Anna believes history is more than treasure waiting to be claimed. Every relic has a story, every legend has consequences, and sometimes the greatest question is not whether something can be found—but whether it should be disturbed at all.

Nearby is a brilliant young Oxford scholar named Dr. Henry Jones Sr., whose fascination with sacred history and legendary objects makes him an invaluable colleague, a frequent intellectual opponent...and perhaps something more.

One day, Anna will become the mother of Indiana Jones.

But this is not his story.

This is hers.

Step into Oxford at the close of the nineteenth century and join Anna Mary Croft for museum mysteries, archaeological adventures, secret societies, ancient legends, dangerous discoveries, and the first chapters of a legacy that will echo through generations.

Anna Mary Croft is one of the Guardians of Tomorrow.