After the end

Like Professor Carey Roberts, many feared the world would end in 2012. It was instead the beginning of a new cycle in the Mayan calendar. Life continues to evolve.

Two years later, believing there is more to be learned from the Mayans, Roberts returns to the Yucatán, only to have his research interrupted when he is caught up in a local tragedy while in the company of Tyler West, a popular American journalist. Recuperating in Kaan, a place whose name is Mayan for Heaven, Roberts confronts his...