NINTH LORD OF THE NIGHT

Logline:

According to the ancient Mayans, all time will end on December 21st, 2012. A teenage surfer races an artifacts smuggler for a lost Mayan book that will save the world and give him hope for a future.

Synopsis:

“I don't like leaving loose ends.”

Roman Morales, an artifacts smuggler, knows that Zack Johannsen, a teenage California surfer, witnessed him kill his partner. He believes Zack also took something of his.

But Zack, the hero of NINTH LORD OF THE NIGHT, has no clue what he's expected to do in the weird situation he's stumbled into.

For, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21st, 2012. On December 15th, Zack gets sent to work on a dig at Tikal in the jungles of Guatemala with his uncle; but he knows nothing about this Mayan prophesy, nor that his ancestors made it. All he knows is that he’s having these weird visions where he travels in time. He thinks he’s going crazy.

Zack no sooner arrives in Guatemala than he witnesses Ramon Morales kill a man. This guy’s a notorious smuggler of ancient artifacts, and he wants what Zack found at the scene of the crime – a map to some kind of priceless treasure. Zack can't read the map, but he meets a native girl who can, if he can win her over.

When Zack sees the gory paintings on the walls at Tikal he travels back to when the prediction was made. He learns that the map leads to a lost Mayan book. If Zack doesn’t find it first, the prediction will come true.

NINTH LORD OF THE NIGHT is a story about a race between a slacker and a smuggler for a lost Mayan book that will save the world.

Footnote:

Cash Anthony has secured the rights to the novel from which this story is adapted, NINTH LORD OF THE NIGHT, by Diana L. Driver.