Aquamarine Delight

Anya Ohmara is off on her third adventure thanks to the time-traveling jewelry box. Research for her next book has her up to her eyeballs in voodoo and witchcraft. Spending all of her time at home is not helping the depressing state of her love life. Not that she has time for a real relationship between writing and the gemstone-induced sexcapades, but a girl can dream, right? On a chance trip to the university library, Anya runs into Derrick—the mouthwatering deliveryman she happens to have a huge crush on. Thankfully he doesn’t recognize her as the customer he’s seen in nothing but a wet t-shirt. Narrowly escaping the encounter with her dignity intact, Anya goes back to writing—after all, it’s much easier to understand than men.

Things are not going so well for Vanessa in sunny Costa Rica either. When she’s on the job, she tiptoes around her boss. When she’s not on the job, she’s chauffeuring the intern and trying to avoid being seen by the over-amorous Ricardo. She’s stuck between a bartender and a hard place. When her boss suggests that they need to talk, she’s sure he’s going to fire her. Unfortunately, there’s no calling in sick when you’re part of a camp of three.

Anya is so immersed in her writing that she almost forgets to check the jewelry box the night of March 15th. Inside the box is a golden cuff set with aquamarine stones. This time her dreams whisk her away to an ancient Mayan city at the height of the civilization. The looming pyramids and acropolis-like structures all seem deserted--until a stocky, tattooed warrior sneaks up behind her. Chak Kimi is a man of few words, but Anya isn’t worried. That is, not until he leads her toward a stone altar in the middle of a courtyard. Now she’s stuck in a strange cross between fantasy and reality with a warrior of a people who practice ritual human sacrifice. Will she find a way out of this predicament or is this the definitive end of her search for passion?