THE DEATH RELIC
Vanquished by the Spanish Empire, little remained of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerged: the Christians possessed a mysterious object, an artifact so deadly that it was known in the Americas as the death relic. Little is known about the death relic, despite its infamy. Not its shape, its size, nor its purpose. Like the lives of the men who carried it, the object was lost long ago. Or was it? When Maria Pelati's research team disappears in Mexico, she calls Payne and Jones, who offer to find the archaeologists. The duo quickly finds a link between the group's work and its recent disappearance. Following clues left behind, the duo tries to locate her team by solving one of the darkest mysteries of the Aztec and Mayan empires.