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 for Claire’s new friend brings Claire’s family and friends together, 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 Mérida Santiago neighborhood. Instead, she happily resides with her husband in Traverse City, Michigan.