Maya Cities

AN EXPEDITION DISAPPEARS WHILE SEARCHING FOR A FORGOTTEN MAYAN CITY. A TREASURE TROVE OF GOLD AND MANUSCRIPTS LIES HIDDEN FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN THE RAIN FORESTS OF GUATEMALA. POWERFUL MEN WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A PRICELESS COLLECTION OF MAYAN RELICS. Former Dallas stockbroker and owner of a New York gallery specializing in artifacts and relics, Brian Sadler continues the adventures that began in the award-winning book The Bethlehem Scroll. The wealthy antiquities dealer and amateur archaeologist asks his companion Nicole Farber, a beautiful criminal lawyer from Dallas, to join him in ...

When wildlife photographer Marlowe witnesses illegal poaching in Montana's backcountry, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of brooding, protective park ranger. Cole Morrison is 36 to her 26, with gentle hands and an intensity that makes her breath catch every time he growls "mine." "You're under my protection now," he declares when armed poachers force them to shelter together at his remote station. "I don't lose anyone in my territory, especially not you." Marlowe came to Thunder Creek for portfolio shots. She never expected to find her future with a mountain man who sees her ...

In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable and delicate to do the job. But then the New York World challenges her to an assignment she'd be mad to accept and mad to refuse: go undercover as a patient at Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum for women.

A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India's divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war...

When my BMW skids up a gravel mountain road, I don’t expect to end the day stranded in a storm and falling hard for the man I came to destroy. As a high-powered environmental lawyer, I’m used to wielding cease-and-desist orders like weapons. This trip to Colorado was supposed to be quick and bloodless: serve papers to Cruz Construction, shut them down, and catch my flight back to the city. Then I meet Dane Cruz. Six-foot-four of raw muscle, golden skin, and work-roughened hands that know how to build more than just homes. He’s supposed to be the villain in my legal brief, but he sees ...

When a storm strands her in the wrong man’s cabin, she doesn’t expect it to feel exactly right… Environmental scientist Dr. Grace Vance came to the Montana wetlands to do a job: evaluate complaints, file her report, and leave. Falling for a rugged cranberry farmer with storm-dark eyes was never in the plan. But from the moment Callum Ward steps out of his weathered shed - broad-shouldered, flannel-clad, and sinfully confident - Grace feels something she can’t explain. Something dangerous. Something inevitable. Callum has lived alone on his bog for eight years, content to let the ...

When Harper Bolton sets out on her first solo vacation in the Colorado wilderness, she expects easy trails and quiet sunsets—not getting lost on an abandoned mining track with a storm rolling in. By the time she realizes she’s in over her head, she’s one misstep away from disaster. Enter Jaxon Vale, a rugged wilderness guide who’s spent years keeping strangers alive in these mountains while quietly wrestling with ghosts of his own. Saving Harper from the cliff edge should have been routine. Offering her shelter in his emergency cabin for the night should have been temporary. But one...

When successful marketing executive Hannah returns to Thunder Creek to settle her grandmother's estate, she doesn't expect to be pulled over by six feet of commanding authority in a sheriff's uniform. Marcus Stone is everything she remembers and more—confident, protective, and absolutely certain about what he wants. He's also 36 to her 28, with steel-gray eyes and a voice that makes her pulse race every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're not going anywhere until you're ready," he declares when her complicated past threatens to send her running back to Seattle. "And when you are ready, ...

When a haunted hayride introduces her to the wrong kind of danger, she doesn’t expect it to feel exactly right… Romance author Maren Cole came to Cedar Falls, Montana for research—not romance. One hayride with the town’s notorious Headless Horseman is supposed to give her the “authentic mountain man” material her editor demands. Instead, it gives her Hank: a broad-shouldered mechanic with a voice made for sin, a stare that pins her in place, and a possessive streak that makes her question everything she thought she wanted. Hank never chases women. Until Maren. From the second ...

Ruby Lane came to Wild River to sign a few papers and get back to her city life. But her inheritance comes with one condition—she has to spend a week on Hollander Ranch. That means dealing with Jace Hollander: a cowboy with a glare sharp enough to cut barbed wire and a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas. When a storm leaves Ruby stranded overnight, Jace takes her in. One cabin. One bed. And a cowboy who doesn’t play games. Ruby wants her city escape. Jace wants her tied to his land—and to his bed. She thinks she’s leaving. He’s already stolen her heart.

Travel back to a thousand years before the Aztecs, when volcanos obliterated cities, impelling the survivors to find a place of safety. These survivors built the largest city in the Americas and one of the world’s top seven megacities. They erected the highest pyramid in Mexico and apartment compounds for 125,000 people. Teotihuacan stood out as Mesoamerica’s leading metropolis from the third to sixth century CE. Its multi-ethnic population developed coast-to-coast trade, extending south to Central America.

Este libro narra la historia de los viajes que Carlos Tello Díaz emprendió por la Selva Lacandona en busca de las ruinas de Tzendales, la ciudad de los mayas descubierta -y luego misteriosamente perdida- en los albores del siglo XX. Evoca también su vida con los lacandones de Lacanhá, los xateros de Indio Pedro y los guerrilleros de EZLN.

When city girl, Brielle’s, car crashes during a Montana blizzard, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of pure masculine mountain man. Dr. Declan Morrison is everything she's not—rugged, confident, and completely at home in the wilderness. He's also 38 to her 26, with gentle hands and an intensity that makes her heart race every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're mine now," he growls against her ear when the storm traps them together in his cozy cabin. "I'm not letting anything happen to you." Brielle came to Montana to scout corporate retreat locations. She never expected to...

Muchas civilizaciones antiguas han influenciado e inspirado a las personas en el siglo XXI. Los griegos y romanos continúan fascinando a Occidente hoy en día. Pero, de todas las civilizaciones del mundo, ninguna ha intrigado tanto a las personas como los mayas, cuya cultura, astronomía, lengua y misteriosa desaparición siguen siendo cautivantes.

When a grumpy mountain man agrees to supply her festival, she doesn’t expect him to claim more than her pumpkins… Event planner Tessa Langley is desperate - her business, her future, and her pride are all riding on the Cedar Falls Harvest Festival. There’s just one problem: the only pumpkin farmer within a hundred miles is a brooding, broad-shouldered recluse who hates crowds… and city girls. Brody Kane has three rules: no festivals, no complications, and no getting close to anyone who can break his heart. Tessa is a walking violation of all three. But her fire, curves, and stubborn...

Eve, Justin, Susie and Ed have been friends since they were 18. Now in their 30s, the four are still as close as ever, Thursday pub quiz night is still sacred and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe Eve should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed sometimes thinks about it, too. Then one night, in an instant, all their lives change forever. And, as Eve learns she didn’t know her friends as well as she thought, she also discovers she isn’t the only person keeping secrets.