After the end

<p>Like Professor Carey Roberts many feared the world would end in 2012. It was instead the beginning of a new cycle in the Mayan calendar. Life continues to evolve.</p><p></p><p>Two years later believing there is more to be learned from the Mayans Roberts returns to the Yucatán only to have his research interrupted when he is caught up in a local tragedy while in the company of Tyler West a popular American journalist. Recuperating in Kaan a place whose name is Mayan for Heaven Roberts confronts his past of failed relationships forms new friendships and embarks on a journey of acceptance understanding and enlightenment.</p><p></p><p>In Kaan Roberts encounters important individuals from his past: Tim his childhood hero; E. J. the college girlfriend who once proposed marriage to him; and Chip the boy for whom he was once a big brother. Among the many new personalities he meets in Kaan are Claude his endearing caretaker; Roon a mysterious Middle Eastern teacher concealing a dark past; Vinya the teacher and librarian who saved Roon; Phyllis Clout a suspected murderer; Yuan whom Roberts believes to be the local leader; and Patrick the charismatic young man whom Roberts seems able to glimpse only in the distance.</p><p></p><p>With Roberts narrating his experiences the novel presents a vision of the afterlife unlike anything previously published. Death is not the end. Eternity has significant implications for all creation. Endings are but a bridge in the evolution of people and the world in which they live.</p>