Beautiful Sacrifice

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If the covenant be kept on the night of December 21, 2012, then the Great Wheel shall grind the old world to dust, Kukulcán shall blow it beyond the Bacabs, and the followers of Kawa’il will rule in the Age of Kings.

—MODERN TRANSLATION FROM THE LOST CODEX OF KAWA’IL

CHAPTER ONE

DR. LINA TAYLOR DROVE INTO THE STAFF PARKING AREA of Houston’s Museum of the Maya.

Good, she thought in relief. Nearly empty. I can park close to the back entrance. Thank God for winter break.

In a gesture that had become automatic over the past few months, Lina checked around the area before she turned off her little Civic. Nobody was paying any attention to her. There was no reason for the back of her neck to tingle in primal warning.

Yet it did.

Just before she opened the locked doors, her cell phone rang. The tone told her that it was her mother, Cecilia Reyes Balam—Celia to her friends, business associates, and family.

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