A murder arranged as a suicide . . . a missing deed . . . and a bereft daughter whose sheltered world is shattered. In August 1869, Lily Granville is stunned by her father's murder. Only one other person knew about a valuable California gold mine deed. Determined to track down her father's killer, Lily heads west on the newly opened transcontinental railroad and soon realizes she is not the hunter - she's the prey. Who can Lily trust? The China-bound...

After recovering from a snakebite in the Southwestern desert with help from a friendly Tarahumara Indian named Quanto, prospector Dan Mora is heading north for the border. Quanto warns him, in the limited words and gestures they use to communicate, of Apaches to the north and bandits everywhere. Coming upon the ruins of an abandoned mission, Mora cannot know that he has stumbled into a search for a legendary gold deposit - or that Quanto still has...

"When young Buck Trager rode into Midastown, it wasn't a cowhand's joy ride. He'd waited eight long years to find the men who'd gunned down his family in a fight over hidden gold. Now he'd found them and it was time for his revenge. But the killers had been waiting for Buck, too. He was the only one left who could tell them where his father had hidden the gold. They out-numbered him, and they were ready to use torture and violence to find the yellow...

At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.

Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.

"Hashknife Hartley, cowpuncher and amateur detective, and his partner, Sleepy Stevens, had faced some tough propositions in their day, but none had been quite so ticklish as the gold robberies at the Comanche Chief Mine at Painted Wells, Arizona. When Hashknife and Sleepy were asked by the Cattlemen's Association of Arizona to go and investigate the robberies, they had no idea what they were walking into. Another investigator had already been sent...

"He needed a New Day... After months at sea, mine owner Ian Beckner wanted nothing more than to run on California's solid ground. He and the Cornish workers had survived! She needed a New Life... After her own arduous journey to the West, Olivia Bradstreet's past is redeemed. She is the headmistress of the Oak Street Home for Children. Her years of social deportment are being used for her true calling- leading the charge for the orphaned and friendless....

"Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at least a year, meaning Dawson has the unpleasant choice...