Casiopea Tun spends her days scrubbing floors in her grandfather’s house, dreaming of escape. Her life feels as small as her dusty town in southern Mexico—until she opens a forbidden wooden box and unleashes a god. Not just any god, but Hun-Kamé, the Mayan god of death, betrayed and dethroned by his brother.
Bound to him by fate, Casiopea must help reclaim his throne or face destruction herself. Her journey spans 1920s Mexico, from Yucatán’s jungles to Mexico City’s glittering jazz halls, and finally into the obsidian depths of Xibalba, the underworld.
As myth and modernity collide, Casiopea finds not only danger but freedom, identity, and even love. But the road to destiny is paved in shadows—will she survive the gods’ game?
