Where worlds collide, cultures clash and history makes an inexorable turn, Jessie learns that nowhere in the past is safe, and that survival is a deadly business.
Jessie’s life has become a series of terrible challenges. Now she must lead her friends in the hopeless task Grandfather set them: hunt down and destroy the Time Stones. But her leadership has already failed. Tip has left them and Abe has simply disappeared, while she and Kes are trapped in the heart of an ancient empire in turmoil.
Thrust into a fractured, threatened Mexica nobility, Jessie is immersed in a way of life, fascinating and disturbing in equal measure, yet powerless before the approaching Conquistadors and the impending clash of cultures.
Even as the fabulous city of Tenochtitlan descends into savage violence, Jessie’s determination to succeed is undiminished. But with world history taking a new, bloody direction before her, she is finally forced to decide which is more important: continuing the task or simply surviving.
"Somehow he has managed to give us a history lesson that we are not aware of because we are deep in the adventure. I found it intriguing and enlightening as well as exhausting. I rushed to the end! What a marvelous book!"
"Quetzalcoatl...is a tautly gripping novel that is written with a sensitivity to the era it depicts, but it is also a story packed with adventure and magic. Hunter's vivacious storytelling made this novel impossible to put down. It is a story that has been penned with an impressive sweep and brilliance."
"Indeed, there are many threads to this story, all woven intricately together to create a vast tapestry of myths, legends, history and magic."
