Souls of Megiddo: The Caretakers (Volume 1)

According to Mayan prophesy, the world ends on December 21, 2012. It’s not supposed to be a great day for humanity. So when your alarm buzzes on the morning of the 22nd and you still have to get up, take a shower, dress for work, feed the cat, feed the dog, suffer through traffic, endure a morning packed full of meetings, eat a terrible lunch out of a brown sack, suffer more afternoon meetings, tackle the commute home, push down leftover pizza for dinner, and watch reruns of some dancing competition reality show on television, what went wrong? Nothing. Everything went right. We have Jacob Collier and an ancient Mayan priest named Ixzalouh to thank. It’s 75 BC and Ixzalouh’s people are vanishing. He’s the last Mayan High Priest. With the help of Tepeu, his supernatural teacher, Ixzalouh creates two pendants to preserve the souls of his dying civilization. They are palm-sized granite stones each containing a hooked X on its face. One stone houses the soul, the ch’ulel, of a Mayan child named Bale’. The other Stone, a mirror image of the other, contains the soul of a criminal. In the twentieth century, Jacob Collier is a high school history teacher who has been bequeathed one of the Stones. Throughout his life, he learned how to understand its power and to manage the demands and responsibilities placed upon his shoulders. A secretive group called the Patrocinium helps Jacob understand the stone’s history and his till-death-do-us-part role as its Caretaker. Together, he and the Patrocinium must find the Stone’s twin and keep both from those who would abuse their power. Not everyone appreciates Jacob’s work. www.soulsofmegiddo.com