Joshua Bates is a retired banker who now teaches Economics at a small college in Colorado. A tragic death of one of his students leads to the exploration of an old mine, which is perceived to be cursed as evidenced by the near death experiences of Dr. Bates and his associates.

Professor Bates and his associates at Wasatch College in Wasatch, Colorado, are up to their necks in intrigue. It apparently involves just about everyone that he knows. Unknown as to why, he will place himself and his family in great danger unless he backs off from his involvement in affairs that he is told do not involve him. The problem...he doesn't know what he has done, nor to whom. He is in a race to find out before he and his family suffer dire consequences.

A student from Wasatch College is found very early in the morning sitting by the side of a highway in the mountains north of Wasatch, Colorado in a terror-induced trance. Further investigation by Professor Bates and his associates in Wasatch find evidence of a long hidden secret. The next few weeks in Dr. Bates' life are filled with adventure and terror at every turn, culminating in a discovery that will revise history in the Mountain West forever.

Evil has manifested itself at Wasatch College. Fires and diabolical curses are common. Students and faculty have been injured and taken ill while the administration tries to deal with this outbreak.

Professor Bates once again finds himself in the middle of circumstances that he did not create and cannot control.

Bates is up to the challenge but he is thwarted at every turn by sinister events in the area's past. Only when the truth of the past is eventually discovered can the college be liberated from the ruinous force that has it in its grasp.

Joshua Bates is a retired banker who now teaches Economics at a small college in Colorado. A tragic death of one of his students leads to the exploration of an old mine, which is perceived to be cursed as evidenced by the near death experiences of Dr. Bates and his associates.