The Mad Monk’s Treasure
by Kris Bock
Chapter 1
Erin could hardly believe what she was
seeing. Could this be it? After all this time waiting, searching, had she
finally, finally, found what she was looking for?
She forced herself to sit back and take a
deep breath. Don’t make assumptions. Don’t rush into things. She wanted to leap
up and scream her excitement, but years of academic training held. Slow down,
double-check everything, and make sure you are right!
She leaned forward and ran her fingers over
the grainy photograph. With that one image, everything seemed to fall into
place. This was the clue. It had to be.
She fumbled in her desk drawer for a
magnifying glass and studied the symbols in the photo more closely. At a
glance, they looked like your standard Indian petroglyphs. You could find them
throughout the Southwest, tucked away in caves or scattered among boulder fields.
She’d been on a hike just a few miles outside of town which took her past a
wonderful series of handprints and spirals, and what looked strangely like a
robot.
But this was different.
If she was right—and she had to be
right—these symbols were a map. A map that could lead her to one of the
greatest caches of buried treasure ever.
Who would believe she’d found the clue to one of the most fabulous
hidden treasures ever, in a battered old library book? The book must have been
sitting there for years, quietly hoarding its secrets. But she had found it.
Six months of research had led to this.
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Kris Bock writes novels of suspense and romance
with outdoor adventures and Southwestern landscapes. The Mad
Monk’s Treasure follows the hunt for a long-lost treasure in the New Mexico
desert. In The Dead
Man’s Treasure, estranged relatives compete to reach a buried treasure by
following a series of complex clues. In The Skeleton Canyon Treasure,
sparks fly when reader favorites Camie and Tiger help a mysterious man track
down his missing uncle.
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Interesting. Hope she has found what she is looking for.
ReplyDeleteI can sense her excitement through you description of the high stakes.
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