In 1933, a Bauhaus'artist's secretive actions in Europe on the edge of World War II. In the late 1990ies, two transatlantic lovers, Erin Kelly, a Taos, New Mexico based photographer, and François Rosen, a creative, Paris businessman, get caught up in a tangled web of Nazi confiscated art. Their lives and that of many associates are in danger as they slowly begin to discover they are being pursued by someone who will not only murder thousands to get hold of Francois' father's art, but who may also be the leader of a ruthless, neo-Nazi resurgence. Code of the Running Cross, An Erin Kelly Mystery, is also a complex story of men and women ensnared by actions and beliefs, codes of malignant greed and evil, and selfless good inherited from their WWII era forefathers.