Domain — Steve Alten

For 32 years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. Julius believes the sites of the ancients, placed all around the globe, represent ancient pieces of a puzzle linked to the salvation of our species.

Miami, September 2012: Psychologist Dominique Vazquez is assigned a special patient--Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ, who attempts to charm her into believing his father's theories of the Apocalypse so he can escape.

Fall Equinox: As it has done for a thousand years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid . . . a rare galactic alignment occurs, and a space transmission reaches Earth.

It is the beginning of the end ...