Dr. Alice Cameron is a famous scientist -- an archeoastronomer --
devoted to studying ancient Mayan culture. The era driving her career
has always been the end of the Mayan baktun, so she's on the Yucatan
Peninsula in December 2012 with her daughter Nixie...and so are fellow
serious scholars, plenty of end-of-the-world crazies, and -- at an
international summit -- the President of the United States and other
heads of state. When Nixie disappears into the past in the Mayan
jungle, rationality and mysticism, the present and the past start
merging. Meanwhile, Alice is drawn into the machinations of statecraft
by an old friend.
A savvy scientist, a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, an ancient
shaman, a noble Mayan couple, a computer nerd, and an 11-year old
traverse the past and present in a search for the meaning of life and
a way to save two worlds.