Escape to a time and place in Ancient Mesoamerica, present day Mexico. Meet Ora Ka-Buk, our heroine, who emerges as an innocent sixteen year old daughter of the local fishing village’s chief, and thus, has the liberty to go freely on her way each day to swim the turquoise lagoon and revel in the undersea beauty nature delivers. But this day is quite different from all her days of the past. For the gods have chosen Ora to receive a gift from the heavens, a tiny Gem Star buried in coral rock for 65 million years after it rode an asteroid down to Earth, yet was flung across the sea to settle just offshore of her beautiful lagoon.
Ora's Mayan heritage and adventurous spirit inspires her to capture the flashy, fiery ball. She absorbs all the energy and enlightenment it pours forth for only her to control. In a time when women were of a lower class and denied spiritual participation, Ora breaks these bonds and begins a journey of discovery and adventure, empowerment, and, eventually, leadership to save her people from the scourge and enslavement by the mighty King of the great City of the Gods, Teotihuacan. In between, Ora befriends the great Bahlum, the jaguars that are masters of the jungle and feared by all. But the Gem Star allows Ora to telepathically communicate with the mightiest of the bahlum, who she names Agar. They become inseparable, and Agar his mistresses’ guardian.
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