Her Life in Ruins

Catherine Saunders has quite a few balls in the air. In her final year of an elite graduate school (Stanford, archaeology) she’s nearly finished her dissertation, is entertaining several love interests, helps escort posh Stanford seniors on a dig—they unintentionally provide lots of humor, unlike the tech multimillionaire bros, who need plenty of attention. But then the unthinkable happens, and the subject of Catherine’s dissertation, a fascinating and important Mayan pot, disappears. To try to recover the object, Catherine pairs up with her research partner, as well as a possible love interest, and heads into the Yucatán in search of a master forger who may well have the original object…and could be trying to unload it. As the story line gears up, and as we ricochet all over the ancient Mayan world, readers are certain to fall in love with Catherine and her academic/rom com/espionage life.—Brian Kenney