Rewriting Atlantis

What happens when a reporter discovers a world that can't possibly exist?

Who is trying to destroy evidence that it's ever been found?

Amaryllis Lang is a feisty but icy reporter who snorkels in the shimmering waters off Mexico. There, the amateur Indiana Jones finds pyramids and temples that had been covered by the sea for millennia. Now the structures are on dry ground, thanks to a new Mexican water retention project. Amaryllis and photographer Garret Lucas, led by their taciturn guide Gabriel Santangelo, document what could be the greatest journalistic coup of their lives.

However, someone doesn't want the story published. Upon returning to the Los Angeles Star, Amaryllis writes her story for demanding boss Noel Wright III. Garret disappears overnight, along with his photographs. A terrorist bombing allows the sea to roll back over the pyramids and a crystal orb is all that Amaryllis has left of her discovery. But what a jewel it is. When she holds it, she sees visions of an ancient world that succumbed to a horrific cataclysm. Atlantis? Ridiculous, she thinks. She never mentions it to anyone, but keeps it at her side.

Partly guided by orb visions, half chased by vicious enemies, Amaryllis runs from L.A. to Chicago (where she encounters her old flame, attorney Donny Gregorios) to Florida and then to the Bahamas -- all in pursuit of the story that got away. Along the way, dodging a deadly consortium of academics and fundamentalists, Amaryllis and Donny also comb Florida's police cold-case files for evidence of foul play in the death of Amaryllis' archeologist parents twenty years earlier. The race is on to fulfill her parents' dream of finding a sunken, ancient world, before anti-Atlantis operatives obscure the evidence forever.