Hidden Gold: Lost Treasure in the Flint Hills

While training for a marathon, Beth Pierce discovers a startling acquaintance with past lives around her. This gorgeous young graduate student is thrown into a new world she shares with visions of early Welsh pioneers around central Kansas. Despite her amazed excitement, Beth cannot tell anyone about her experiences for fear they will think she is crazy. Only when her professors at Emporia State University, Ron Cannon and Dwight Watt, unearth an ancient iron coffin, can Beth begin to reveal the tale surrounding it An unlikely team of professors and students join together to unravel the mystery of the coffin's origin, the lives of Jacob and Elvira Fagans, and the unlikely hiding place for their lost treasure. This rapidly unfolding novel is a treasure-hunt adventure linking past and present. Modern investigative techniques, told through Beth's visions and the findings of a college research class, show the surprising discoveries about early settlers' lives, historical facts, and heightened sensitivity that we are not alone. When the riddle comes to an astonishing conclusion, the final discovery of the treasure on Fagans Mound is sure to change the minds of those who steadfastly believe that dead men tell no tales.