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About the Book

Jackie Michenaud is a brilliant archæologist and professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She has a loving but often strained relationship with Frank Collins, a successful young lawyer on a fast track with a posh law firm in nearby Phoenix. Frank’s work-a-day life is dramatically changed when his friend, noted author Patrick Nelson, is threatened with eviction from his idyllic cabin in Central Arizona. Frank suffers an accident in his private plane under suspicious circumstances while en route to Patrick’s cabin. Frank and Jackie unite in an effort to protect their threatened friend. They form a team including Frank’s boss, Abe Sackman, friend and retired air force aviator, Peter Billingsley, and Jackie’s assistant, Mary Hendrix. Together the group is drawn into a dangerous investigation which leads them from an apparent Aztec temple (hidden for centuries within Arizona’s Prescott National Forest) to the ruins of el Templo Mayor in the center of (Tenochtitlán) Mexico City.

About the Author

The author is a retired USAF aviator and veteran of Vietnam. Following his retirement, he moved to Crystal River, Florida, where he earned a Bachelor’s and a Master of Arts degree with honors in geography at the University of Florida. He later served as adjunct professor of geography at that university. More recently he completed a second career as cartographer and physical scientist with what is now the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Soon to be published projects include several novels in period western as well as contemporary mystery genres. He is a native of northern Illinois (Aurora) but now lives in Falls Church, Virginia.