The world will not end in 2012, Amara just knows it. The 20-year-old college reporter is set on debunking the Maya calendar myths and restoring the peace. But when a covert group starts hunting her, she and her roommate Cayden are forced to uncover her grandfather's mysterious past. At 20 years old, Mahaway is the brightest scribe in Ox Te' Tuun, a powerful ancient Maya city. Then in 900 A.D., her life is torn apart by a greedy new king's war. She, her best friend Yochi, and a new friend Ichik must band together to fight back and save their home.

In doing so, they expose a deadly weapon, one that threatens to ruin everything. Though these two young women live in different ages, their paths' cross when Amara is tasked with discovering and stopping a secret before December 21 to save herself, and the world.