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After the death of her husband, wealthy Michigander Ruth Newcombe disappears to Mérida, Mexico, where her search for freedom, archaeology, and reinvention forces three generations of women to confront loss, identity, and the courage to reshape their lives.

When recently widowed Ruth Newcombe abruptly leaves her wealthy Michigan life for Mérida, Yucatán, her family wavers between frustration and fear at her disappearance. As Ruth quietly explores the Yucatán Peninsula—and forms friendships with anthropologist Claire Aguila and Mérida’s expatriate community—Ruth’s daughter Debra and granddaughter Lucy race to Mérida, only to uncover a truth far more complicated than they imagine.

Meanwhile, Claire’s family and her former Keane College colleagues have arrived to celebrate Claire’s marriage to Detective Salinas, their romance rekindled years after they first met. As Claire and her friends become involved in Ruth’s disappearance—and their search unfolds—Claire faces her own crossroads, navigating cultural tensions and questions of identity ahead of her marriage.

Against the vivid backdrop of Mayan history, expat reinvention, and Mexican family traditions, Rites of Passage reveals how three generations of women confront loss and identity, and gain the courage to choose a new path.

Dr. Cindy L. Hull is an anthropologist and Professor Emeritus from Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Her research interests have taken her and her family to Mexico, Micronesia, and rural Michigan. She has published two ethnographies: Katun: A Twenty- Year Journey with the Maya; and Chippewa Lake: A Community in Search of an Identity.Rites of Passage is the third novel in the Claire Aguila trilogy: The first novel, Human Sacrifice, took place in Mexico and introduced Dr. Claire Aguila, Detective Roberto Salinas, and Claire's university colleagues; Culture Shock took Claire and her family to the mysterious world of the Florida retirement community; Rites of Passage takes Claire, her friends and family back to Yucatán, Mexico, where the search of Claire's new friend brings Claire's family and friends together in a desperate search, and where Claire faces a personal reckoning.Alas, Cindy has not succumbed to the allure of life in a Florida retirement community, nor in the Merida Santiago neighborhood. Instead, she happily resides with her husband in Traverse City, Michigan.