The Little Mayan Girl by Terry Michael Presley

A romantic adventure of an ambitious American photographer who has an opportunity to document an archelogical site in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. The year is 1973 and photographer Spencer Golightly takes on the challenge with hopes of becoming a great photographer for National Geographic. Along the way he falls in love with a young native girl. In her defense of a horrible event both are told to leave the excavation site for good and then something horrible happens.