Book one of the Isabella Mumphrey Adventure series
Move over Indiana Jones and MacGyver- Isabella Mumphrey has arrived!
Child prodigy and now Doctor of Anthropology, Isabella Mumphrey, is about to lose her job. Unless she can decipher an ancient stone table?and she can. She heads to Guatemala at the request of her mentor, but drug trafficking bad guys and artifact thieves wreak havoc on her scholarly intentions.
When undercover DEA agent, Tino Kostantine, meets Dr. Mumphrey it's obvious she's never been in a jungle or outside of the States. Entangled in helping her discover the truth in the tablets may make both of them lost casualties buried forever.
Autorentext
Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 51 novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.
Zusammenfassung
What happens when a brilliant anthropologist is lured to the jungle to be used as a human sacrifice?Child prodigy and now Doctor of Anthropology, Isabella Mumphrey, is about to lose her job at the university. In the world of publish or perish, her mentor's request for her assistance on a dig is just the opportunity she's been seeking. If she can decipher an ancient stone tableand she canshe'll keep her department. She heads to Guatemala, but drug trafficking bad guys, artifact thieves, and her infatuation for her handsome guide wreak havoc on her scholarly intentions.DEA agent Tino Kosta, is out to avenge the deaths of his family. He's deep undercover as a jaguar tracker and sometimes jungle guide, but the appearance of a beautiful, brainy anthropologist heats his Latin blood taking him on a dangerous detour that could leave them both casualties of the jungle.