Using his father's watch as a key, Jake intends to return to Calypsos. Instead, he's thrust into a strange desert land where he's joined by his friends Marika, Pindor, and Bach'uuk and his sister, Kady. As they try to figure out what to do next, a surprise attack......

Young Jake Ransom receives a mysterious package in the mail. Inside he finds the logs of his parents, archaeologists who disappeared three years earlier while on a dig in Mexico. This first puzzling hint sends Jake and his sister on a search across time and exotic lands to discover the true fate of their parents....