The Romanov Cross

(Bantam Books) Masello’s fourth supernatural thriller, The Romanov Cross crosses genres — historical fiction mixed with medical thriller — and tells the story of Army epidemiologist Frank Slater’s trip to a small island off Alaska. The island, with connections to the fall of the Romanov family in Russia and Rasputin, an infamous Russian monk, is home to frozen corpses of people killed by the Spanish flu of 1918 and could cause a pandemic. Masello is a journalist, television writer, and author of both fiction and nonfiction.