Travel photographer, Tampa de Leon, is assigned to photograph the Spring Equinox at the ruins of Chichen Itzá in Yucatán México. What he hasn’t bargained for is finding the dead body of a prestigious university professor floating in the Sacred Well at Chichén and later the body of a graduate student at the ruins of Cobá. A web of professional jealousy, academic fraud, violent tomb looters, an over-eager journalist keen to capture a scoop, and millions of dollars of ancient Maya art makes for a treacherous atmosphere among the ancient Maya ruins of the Yucatán Peninsula.