WASHINGTON, DC, March 2007 -- Filmmaker Mel Gibson has the Mayans destroying themselves in his big-screen tale "Apocalypto."
Margaret Evans’ page-turning thriller The Sixth World transports readers to 2012 for the answer in Book One of The Maya Earth Trilogy, now in its second printing. Two archaeologists discover Mayan hieroglyphics in California and are quickly entangled in a desperate race against time and terrorists to save the ancient civilization and even the earth itself.
Watch the Mayan secrets and prophecies unfold in this fictional hot-seller hailed as an “expertly written, flawlessly plotted mystery thriller” by Ibbetson Street Review. Roundtable Reviews raved: “The Sixth World draws the reader in from the start and never lets go.”
Readers second the critical analysis of The Sixth World.
"A fast plot driven by romance, intrigue and greed. Watch out, Michael Crichton." -- E.A., Virginia
"I couldn’t put it down." -- J.W., Nevada
"Fantastic. Watch this author." -- R.M., New York
Inspired by a love for archaeology and a fascination with the Maya culture, Evans created the contemporary Maya Earth Trilogy mystery thriller series. Book Two, Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return, will be released in Fall 2007.
Evans is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Business Administration, and her professional career is on the legal side of the health care industry. Her short stories and humorous philosophical essays have graced the pages of such publications as Ascent Aspirations, Underground Window, Prose Toad, Fullosia Press, Palabras Press, Mannequin Envy, ken*again, A Darker Vision, and NuPenz. She is the author of Hostages to Murder, a six-mystery novella collection, and three full-length novels: The Sixth World, The Lethal Limit, and Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return (2007). A new corporate mystery series featuring Sophie Hammond begins in 2008 with Out of the Equation. Evans is a regular exhibitor at the annual Baltimore Book Festival and a member of Sisters in Crime, International Women’s Writing Guild, Friends of Mystery, and The Writer’s Center.
THE SIXTH WORLD can be purchased through online venues and in bookstores.
ISBN (Hardbound): 9781413400540 / 141340054X
ISBN (Trade Paper): 9781413400533 / 1413400531
Watch for Book Two, TRIAL IN JADE: THE MAYAN RETURN (Fall 2007)
For more information on Margaret Evans and The Maya Earth Trilogy, visit www.margaretevans.com.
