Mayan December

• Dr. Alice Cameron is a famous scientist ― an archeoastronomer ― devoted to studying ancient Mayan culture. The era driving her career has always been the end of the Mayan baktun, so she’s on the Yucatan Peninsula in December 2012 with her daughter Nixie...and so are fellow serious scholars, plenty of end-of-the-world crazies, and ― at an international summit ― the President of the United States and other heads of state. When Nixie disappears into the past in the Mayan jungle, rationality and mysticism, the present and the past start merging. Meanwhile, Alice is drawn into the machinations of statecraft by an old friend.
• A savvy scientist, a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, an ancient shaman, a noble Mayan couple, a computer nerd, and an 11-year old traverse the past and present in a search for the meaning of life and a way to save two worlds.

Brenda Cooper has published fiction in Analog, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Nature, and in multiple anthologies. She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for 2008: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, and of the sequels, READING THE WIND and WINGS of CREATION. Brenda co-authored Building Harlequin's Moon with Larry Niven. She also writes nonfiction and poetry.

Her most recent novel is WILDERS, from Pyr.

Other recent novels include SPEAR OF LIGHT, the sequel to the P.K. Dick award nominated EDGE OF DARK, and POST, from eSpecBooks. 

Her best short work is collected is "Cracking the Sky" from Fairwood Press.

Brenda lives in Woodinville, Washington, with her partner Toni, Toni's daughter Katie, two border collies, and a golden retriever. By day, she is the City of Kirkland's CIO, and at night and in early morning hours, she's a futurist and writer.