Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents J. C. Cervantes's exciting
new spin-off from the best-selling STORM RUNNER trilogy.
"This duology opener is accessible to readers who are new to this
world. An engrossing, god-filled delight."--Kirkus Reviews
Fourteen-year-old Renata Santiago is the most powerful godborn of them
all, a bruja with a unique combination of DNA. The Mexica blood from her
dad's side gives her the ability to manipulate shadows. Her mom Pacific,
a Maya goddess, gifted her a magical rope that controls time, and Ren
recently used it to save a few gods from getting stuck forever in 1987.
She brought them back to the present, but her BFF Ah Puch, the once
fearsome god of death, darkness, and destruction, is now a teenager with
no divine powers.
Ren is also a girl with ordinary hopes and dreams. She wishes, for
example, that her blog about alien sightings would garner more respect.
She's always been absolutely convinced that there's a connection between
aliens and the Maya civilization. Plenty of online haters feel
differently, and they call her a fake, a liar, and a loser.
When Ren receives an email about an alien sighting in Kansas, she thinks
it may support her theory. She also suspects that the cinco--five
renegade godborns--are up to no good. Soon she finds herself embroiled
in a quest to prevent the troublemakers from awakening the nine Aztec
Lords of Night. Problem is, none of Ren's friends are available to help
her hunt down the cinco and the dangerous gods they are resurrecting.
Ren has no choice but to team up with two strangers recruited by Ah
Puch: Edison, a teen hybrid demon, and Montero, an eleven-year-old Aztec
hunter. Succeeding in this quest will prove that Ren is no fake, liar,
or loser. But it isn't just another challenge. It could well be an
impossible one that leaves Ren questioning her very existence.
Anyone who enjoys fast-paced myth-based adventures will be swept up in
this one featuring Maya and Mexica gods and their magical offspring.
**Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
soon to be a series on Disney+.
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Can't get enough of Mesoamerican mythology? Get the prequel trilogy!
Rick Riordan Presents: The Storm Runner by J. C. Cervantes
Rick Riordan Presents: The Fire Keeper by J. C. Cervantes
Rick Riordan Presents: The Shadow Crosser by J. C. Cervantes
