Can the mysterious jade amulet transport Nic Porter through time to the era of the classic Mayas? This is just one of the questions the twenty-year-old Mayan history major wants to answer in The Curse of the Jade Amulet. And why does the amulet only come alive when Nic, and no one else, touches it? Most importantly, why does his host family at Chichen Itza, the ancient Mayan ceremonial site where Nic is living and studying, have one of these amulets-when all the others have been found at the bottom of the Sacred Well of Sacrifice along with the remains of the sacrificial victims they were...