SOLVED. 1990s Adult Sci-Fi/ Anthropology book titled "Link", can't remember authors. > Likes and Comments

The book is about researchers on an anthropology dig that discover the missing link. Along the way you discover they are former lovers/divorced, which adds to drama.

Genre: Best fit would be Sci-Fi, but also a bit of History/Anthropology in the mix.

I read it in the around 1995/1996 in hardback when I worked at a library, so I imagine it came out in early/mid 1990s.

Given the short and generic title, my google searching has turned up very little help. So turning here in the hope that someone might know the book. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks all.

Link, by Walt Becker?

"The final piece has been found. In a tiny cave in Central Africa, paleoanthropologist Samantha Colby has discovered the skeleton of what might be the long-sought missing link between ape and man. But the ancient bones raise more questions then they answer-and they suggest that human ancestry can be traced to something previously unimaginable. ..The most important discovery in civilization's history could mean death for Colby and renegade scientist Jack Austin. For it will lead them to even greater revelations that could rock the world-and to secrets no human should know."

Hmmm let me think

Thank you Robert! Link by Walt Becker it is.