12.21, Dustin Thomason

On the second week in December a deadly insomnia hits Los Angeles. Prion researcher Dr. Gabe Stanton and his team are quick to figure out how the disease spreads but powerless to contain it. Could the answer lie in a black market artifact recently smuggled across the border from Guatemala?

Cast out by the CDC after a disastrous failed attempt to cure the disease Stanton teams up with Chel Manu, a curator at the Getty Museum and one of only a handful of descendents of the old Maya civilization to attempt to translate the pages of the artifact as the state is placed on lockdown.

According to the Mayan calendar the world ends on December 21st 2012. . .