Mayan Nights
Chapter One
"Rosa!" SinJin found her pulling fresh bread from the oven and hugged her
tightly, laughing at her expression of surprise.
"What smells so wonderful?"
"Since we have company, so I thought I'd make your favorite, Pibil chicken. Did
you have a good day on the site?"
"Awesome! Asombroso! Perhaps the best day of my life! I may have found
what I'm looking for at Pacal-the tomb of Shield Jaguar. We'll see. Alberto
will be here tomorrow or the next day, and he'll stay for a few days, at least."
"Professor Ramirez will come from Mexico City? Then this is terribly important!"
"He has to provide me with a permit to excavate further. I only had a partial
nod from the government to do preliminary exploration of that section of the
site. Understand?"
Rosa nodded enthusiastically.
"Rosa, where is the woman?"
"Tam. Dr. Tamara Martin. I have not seen her for hours. She went exploring, I
think. Perhaps a swim in the cenote."
SinJin frowned. She couldn't have gotten far on those wounded feet. It wouldn't
be very safe to swim in the sinkhole alone under a ... read full excerpt from Mayan Nights ebook
