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The ancient Mayans predicted the End of Days with precision. But they also provided the key to staving off apocalypse: a flawless sapphire carved into the perfect likeness of a human skull. For centuries, the skull and its legacy of dark intrigue and murder, have been protected by a code few can ...

Owner of a struggling art gallery and newly separated from her boyfriend, Francesca Thayer does the maths and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her Greenwich Village house becomes a whole new world.