Forrest Hayes’ experiences in Chiapas, México in the 1980s and 1990s rattled around in his head, inspiring a short story that morphed into a novel. He resides in Prescott, Arizona.
Paleontologist Peter Campbell is content working among his dinosaur bones in the basement of the Denver Museum of Natural History. When his love interest Jazmin Rivera, an accomplished botanist, disappears in the uncharted jungles of southern México with the vulnerable Lacandón tribe, he must travel into an ancient land clouded by legend and mystery to find her.