When two archaeologists discover Mayan artifacts in California s Central Valley, an adventure begins, magnificently blending history, ancient culture, and mystery. In this second book of the Maya Earth Trilogy, a forgotten tribe from Guatemala challenges who will rule in the coming Sixth World. Watch the Mayan prophecies unfold in this contemporary thriller as archaeologist Amy Parrish pieces together bits of jade for a battle inspired by the Mayan creation story, the Popul Vuh.
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A native of the Washington, D.C., area, Margaret Evans is a graduate of Georgetown University and has spent her professional career on the legal side of the managed health care industry. Her short stories and humorous philosophical essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and journals, including Ascent Aspirations, Palabras Press, Underground Window, ken*again, Prose Toad, and Fullosia Press. She is the author of three full length novels, The Sixth World, Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return, and The Lethal Limit, as well as a six-mystery novella collection, Hostages to Murder.
After an ancient Mayan city is discovered in rural California, a Quitze lord, bitter over his family's banishment centuries ago, challenges Prince Xarantu's bloodline claim to the throne of the Sixth World in 2012. The Mayan prophecies continue to unfold in this contemporary thriller as Marxan's young heir to the new kingdom is kidnapped, and archaeologist Amy Parrish's role as Bringer of the Sixth World lands her in the midst of an intense power struggle on the brink of worldwide change . . . or chaos.Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return is the much-awaited sequel to The Sixth World, Evans's fictional hot-seller about two archaeaologists who discover ancient Mayan hieroglyphics in California's Central Valley. Ibbetson Street Review hailed The Sixth World as an "expertly written, flawlessly plotted mystery thriller," and Roundtable Reviews raved, "The Sixth World draws the reader in from the start and never lets go."
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