18-year old Macaria Magan begrudgingly joins her mother, a professor of archaeology, on excavation at Tikal, Guatemala. The fieldwork season is full of surprises, the kind that have career-making potential, but also attract unwanted attention...

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In the rare moments when Mac is not preoccupied with her own future plans, she helps the team uncover and analyze sensational evidence of political intrigue in the Classic Maya period. But all that fieldwork must be getting to her because Mac begins to dream about the lives of the people whose remains and whose descendants surround her, especially a Maya woman named Iki on the eve of an unforgettable “arrival” in AD 378.