The ancient crystal skulls found in the jungles of Central America exude an air of deep mystery and supernatural strangeness. Were they made by a mysterious race of advanced beings in remote antiquity – a race with
paranormal powers? Tom Powell, an introverted Englishman, and
Molly Beale, a streetwise New Yorker, stumble upon one of the skulls
lying among the charred, still smouldering remnants of three human
corpses on top of the Temple of Warriors in Chichen Itza in a remote
province of Mexico. In consequence they are flung headlong into a
desperate quest to uncover the secrets of the macabre relics – a quest
that will take them right around the world, battling all the way against the forces of evil, to a climactic confrontation at a site sacred
through untold ages of humanity. And to something awesomely more than
human...