Timekey of the Anasazi: Book 1 of the Time Guardian Saga

Overview

What’s the connection between a recently uncovered 1,000-year-old skeleton, an artifact that opens doorways through time, and a hidden alien colony? That’s the question that thirteen-year-old Eliot Reed must answer when his mother, the famous “Indiana Jane of the Anasazi” archaeologist, vanishes from her dig site.

The only clue she left behind is a mysterious metallic orb, pulsing with energy, which leads Eliot to a lost Anasazi village nestled smack in the middle of New Mexico.  He shows the orb to his best friend, Allie Coleman, to see if she can help figure out what it and the village have to do with his mom’s disappearance.  Bad idea.  The artifact’s power has a history of attracting the wrong kind of attention, and Allie isn’t at all what she seems.

As Eliot tries to solve the riddle of the orb, he has to stay one step ahead of the conspirators who covet it, rescue his mother, and return the orb to its rightful owner before his own civilization gets wiped out in a flash of blue light.  But when even your best friend is keeping secrets that can kill, how do you tell the good guys from the bad?