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Archaeologist Lina Taylor has devoted her life to studying ancient Mayan artifacts, splitting her time between digs in South America and the classroom teaching college students. But the professor's structured academic life is about to spin out of control. Some extremely valuable and important Maya artifacts have gone missing. Are the culprits fanatics determined to create chaos and usher in annihilation?
Helping out a friend, former immigration and customs enforcement officer Hunter Johnston is determined to recover the missing pieces and he needs Lina's help. A man used to calling the shots and working alone, he isn't comfortable letting anyone get close, especially a beautiful and brainy woman like Lina. His gift for reading people tells him there's a lot going on below that professional exterior, and he's more than a little curious to probe her depths.
Burying herself in her work, Lina's had little experience handling men, especially one as fascinating and exasperating as the secretive, headstrong Hunter. A devoted archaeologist, she has the skill to excavate those protective layers all the way to his core. But finding the missing artifacts is only the beginning of a mystery that will plunge these unlikely partners into adventure, romance, and danger more thrilling, sensual, and deadly than either of them knows . . .
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"A twisting plot . . . sizzling romance." —Kirkus Reviews
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- ISBN: 9780062101228
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Publisher's Weekly
March 12, 2012
Houston-based archeologist Lina Taylor and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Hunter Johnson join forces to locate four ancient Mayan artifacts that turned up during a drug bust and then vanished. Clues point variously to grave robbers trying to sell the valuable pieces on the black market, narco lords using them in ritual killings, the revival of an ancient cult, and Lina’s own shady aristocratic family in Mexico. As Lina and Hunter dodge bullets and trade wisecracks across the Southwest, Lowell (Death Echo) deftly incorporates creepy basement corpse discoveries, sleazy antiquities dealers, crumbling jungle tombs, charmingly sinister relatives, fascinating archeological elements, and a well-realized, completely invented Mayan god. Less deftly handled is the attraction between Lina and Hunter; their turgid ruminations often read like an awkward second skin stretched tightly over the primary story. But these moments are scarce as Lowell quickly and smartly returns to the breakneck pace of her intriguing narrative. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. -
Booklist
April 15, 2012
Lowell (Death Echo, 2010) explores ancient Mayan prophecy and one cult's interpretation of the end of the Mayan calendar in a suspenseful tale that contains nearly as much art and history as romance. Hunter Thompson gets a panicky call from his friend Jase, a former coworker at the Border Patrol in Texas, who tells him that some Mayan artifacts are missing from evidence and Jase is being blamed. If he can't find them, he will lose his job. Hunter agrees to help his friend and calls on Dr. Lina Taylor, an expert at Houston's Museum of the Maya, to identify the photos Jase gave him and, hopefully, give him some idea of who might have stolen the artifacts. Lina is shocked to see such a trove of heretofore undiscovered art, which could only have come from her family's estate in the Yucatan. As she helps Hunter unravel the facts about the theft of artifacts, they run up against a deadly god cult preparing for the December 2012 Mayan doomsday and the culture's rebirth.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)
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