Gold, A Summer Story

Imagine finding gold on a deceased friend's property by pure chance. No, not a class ring - a lot of gold: a motherlode. What would you do? ... and how? Would there be complications? ... distractions? Who could you trust? Who would really love you for who you were? And how would you go about getting it converted into cold, hard cash?
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> from the e-novel's inside flap:

Mark and Susan’s marriage is on the rocks. Their east Charlotte home is entering foreclosure. The kitchen is being wallpapered with unpaid bills.

When Mark finds a pair of record-setting gold nuggets while wandering around a deceased friend’s house, an erotically charged, suspense-laced, thought-filled gambit begins, twisting through the Carolina Beach tourist season.

Success slips through Mark’s hands like grains of sand. Gold fever takes its toll in the steamy coastal heat. Who – or what – was chasing him? … and why?

Susan, a Cherokee Native American, has had it; she can’t continue in this sordid sexual saga. She exits stage bereft.

Subsequent chances for discovery are blown until David from Raleigh arrives to pick up a new trunk door at an auto salvage yard in Wilmington. A second odyssey soon begins in which no one can be trusted. Suspicion reigns. The scheming and deception soon reach a fatal nadir.

A young Haitian lady, an aspiring novelist, takes notes and gives up her heart, mind and body along the sensual way. An easy future awaits. All is going swimmingly; the surf is calm. Then a tragic rogue wave strikes yet again. Why?

The Filipina TV reporter knows more than any of them think. Will she go to the cops? Will she cut a deal? Will she turn a blind eye? Will she look for the primal source? Will she throw the hungry dog a bodacious bone? But most importantly, will she survive the golden curse?