An ancient compass, carved by a master's hand from the first century, finds its way to the jungles of Guatemala, carried in secret by a Jesuit priest who shares it with his lover, a Mayan queen.

Now after being buried for years in the ruins of a Mayan village it resurfaces, and it just may be the only existing testament from the man known as Jesus.

Ashera Sandriene is an anthropologist, born in Provence to a mother who disappeared mysteriously when she was only a child, and raised in New York by her father, whose success as an artist seems to be tied to a mysterious group of twelve...