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 ...

I came to his ranch to escape my life. He's decided I'm never leaving. Burned out and desperate for peace, I rent a cabin on a Montana cattle ranch. I'm not looking for anything but silence and sleep. I'm definitely not looking for the gruff, silver-templed rancher who keeps showing up at my door with firewood I didn't ask for and that intense look in his eyes. Colton Slade hasn't let anyone close in five years. But when a storm kills my power, he carries me to his house like I weigh nothing and tells me I'm staying. Not asks. Tells. He's grumpy. Possessive. Looks at my curves like I'm the ...

Guide to the Cities, Science, and Secrets of the Ancient Maya — With Real Images, Maps, and Activities for Young Explorers Step into the jungles of Central America and discover one of history’s most fascinating civilizations. The ancient Maya built towering pyramids, created advanced calendars, studied the stars with remarkable accuracy, and developed a writing system long before modern technology existed. Their cities were once home to tens of thousands of people, and their achievements in math, astronomy, and engineering still amaze historians today. Written especially for young ...

Woe betide those who do not respect the ancient gods... A group of archaeologists excavating an uncharted Maya cenote in Yucatán fights for their lives when a bloodthirsty monster mauls the expedition overnight. The retrieval from the bottom of an uncharted Maya cenote of a gold bead shaped like a frog sends world-renowned museographer Robert Garvin into a frenzy for original Maya art to display in his museums, pursuant to an agreement with the Mexican government for a share of the profits. In no time, expedition manager Harold Ross cobbles together, on Garvin’s behalf, an archaeological...

Five cowboys. Five women who weren't looking for love. One ranch where it all begins. Welcome to Silver Spur Ranch, where the men work hard, love harder, and don't let go once they've claimed what's theirs. These men weren't looking for love. But when five curvy women arrive at Silver Spur, everything changes. Because cowboys don't ask. They claim. This collection includes five steamy instalove romances with possessive cowboys, curvy heroines, and guaranteed happily-ever-afters. No cliffhangers, no cheating, just big men with bigger hearts finding the women they'll love forever. Tropes: ...

He trains wild horses. I didn't realize I was next. My grandmother left me a horse I can't ride and a grief I can't shake. Braveheart is wild, stubborn, and only responds to one man--a quiet horse trainer with patient hands and eyes that see too much. Ezra Vance doesn't push. He just says, "We'll go slow," and teaches me to breathe, to trust, to stop being afraid. His calm voice steadies the horse. His steady presence undoes me. I came to Silver Spur planning to sell the mare and run. But somewhere between the riding lessons and the sunset conversations, I realize he hasn't just been ...

In this explosive detective thriller, a 1930s vigilante finds himself in the late twenty-first-century where he teams up with a mysterious teenager, whose looming secrets may impact both of their futures. Only two people know that 1930s society man Lamont Cranston has a secret identity as the...

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.

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...

I got lost in the mountains. He found me. One wrong turn. That's all it took. Now my car is buried in snow, my phone is dead, and the only shelter for miles belongs to a growling giant who looks at me like I'm the first woman he's seen in years. Boone Callahan doesn't do company. Doesn't do conversation. Doesn't do soft. But when he carries me through the blizzard and locks us inside his cabin, something shifts. His hands are rough. His voice is gruff. And the way he watches me peel off my wet clothes makes me forget I'm supposed to be scared. Three days until the roads clear. One bed. And ...

June Maddox has dreamed of Caleb Price since she was old enough to notice men. He’s older, gruffer, and completely off-limits. But when she comes to his farm to help with the harvest, Caleb notices her in a way he never has before. One look turns into one touch. One touch turns into one filthy night that ruins her innocence. June swore she was just helping with the crops. But Caleb’s not letting her walk away untouched—or unmarried.

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 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 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 ...

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.

Jenna Hale came to Wild River for content. What she found was a man watching her every move. Hunter Wolfe doesn’t play games. He’s a hunter by name and by nature—and Jenna wandered into his sights the moment she hit town. When she gets lost in the forest, Hunter finds her. But he doesn’t plan to let her go. Not to her city life. Not to another man. She came for a story. She’s leaving with a hunter who possesses her completely.

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, ...

In this action-packed story from a New York Times bestselling author, a ruthless killer is seeking to overturn the world order—and our only hope is vigilante justice. Since Lamont Cranston—known to a select few as the Shadow—defeated Shiwan Khan and ended his reign of terror over New York...

His daughter stole my heart first. Then her daddy came to claim it. I took the job as ranch cook to escape my past. I wasn't expecting a gruff, silent foreman with sad eyes — or his seven-year-old daughter who keeps sneaking into my kitchen to help bake cookies. Mason Cleary doesn't talk much. But he watches me like I'm something precious. And when my ex shows up demanding I come back, Mason steps between us, all six-foot-five of him, and says two words: "She's mine." I came here to start over. I didn't expect to find a family waiting for me. Tropes: Single Dad • Grumpy Sunshine • ...