Beautiful Sacrifice: A Novel LP

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According toMaya legend, December 21, 2012, will mark the end of the worldas we know it. Is it myth . . .or will theirprediction become reality

Archaeologist Lina Taylor has devoted her life to studying ancientMaya artifacts, splitting her time between digs in South America and the classroomteaching college students. But the professor's structured, academic life is about to spin out of control. Some extremely valuable and important Maya artifacts have gone missing. Are the culprits fanatics determined to create chaos and usher in annihilation

Helping out a friend, former immigration and customs enforcement officer Hunter Johnston is determined to recover the missing pieces and he needs Lina's help. A man used to calling the shots and working alone, he isn't comfortable letting anyone get close, especially a beautiful and brainy woman like Lina.His gift for reading people tells him there's a lot going on below that professional exterior, and he's more than a little curious to probeher depths.

Burying herself in her work, Lina's had little experience handling men, especially one asfascinating and exasperating as the secretive, headstrong Hunter. A devoted archaeologist, she has the skillto excavatethose protective layers all the way to his core.

But finding the missing artifacts is only the beginning of a mystery that will plungethese unlikely partnersinto adventure, romance, and danger more thrilling, sensual, and deadly than either of them knows. . . .

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"As Lina and Hunter dodge bullets and trade wisecracks across the Southwest, Lowell (Death Echo) deftly incorporates creepy basement corpse discoveries, sleazy antiquities dealers, crumbling jungle tombs, charmingly sinister relatives, fascinating archeological elements, and a well-realized, completely invented Mayan god." -- Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Elizabeth Lowell's exciting novels of romantic suspense include the New York Times bestsellers Dangerous Refuge, Beautiful Sacrifice, Death Echo, The Wrong Hostage, Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and Midnight in Ruby Bayou. She has also written New York Times bestselling historical series set in the American West and medieval Britain. She has more than 80 titles published to date, with more than 24 million copies of her books in print. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, with whom she writes novels under a pseudonym. Her favorite activity is exploring the western United States to find the landscapes that speak to her soul and inspire her writing.Las aclamadas novelas de suspenso de la autora Elizabeth Lowell incluyen varios bestsellers en la New York Times. Lowell ha vendido ms de treinta millones de ejemplares. Vive con su esposo en Seattle, Washington y Sedona, Arizona, con quien escribe novelas de misterio bajo un seudnimo.