After sacrificing himself to prevent mankind's extinction, Michael Gabriel is imprisoned in a torturous, purgatory-like dimension in the Mayan netherworld. The Mayan prophecy states that the Hero Twins - his sons Jacob and Immanuel, born to his wife Dominique the year after his entrapment - will travel to the Mayan realm in their twentieth year to free and resurrect him. Jacob, blessed with staggering intelligence and almost superhuman attributes, lives to embrace this destiny. Immanuel, on the other hand, fights the path chosen for him, opting to live a normal life. Yet this struggle is not all that threatens their destiny: born the same day as the twins is a purely malevolent force, The Abomination - the evil yin to their yang - that will not stop until it they succumb to its temptation. The war between good and evil wages on, as Michael Gabriel's fate, and that of planet Earth, hangs by an increasingly thin thread. Traversing worlds, millennia and space-time continuums, the second o f the Mayan trilogy captures the imagination like few books can, making it as much of a rip-roaring page-turner as its predecessor and preparing the series for an explosive climax.