This is the first biographical novel about the frontier Moses who founded the Mormon Church. Our story begins in a shack in Vermont, where Joseph Smith is born in 1805, and follows his family to Palmyra, New York. At fourteen, Joseph has a vision of Jesus and begins to use his skill with a divining rod and peep stone to lead much older men on futile midnight quests for treasure buried in the vast underworld beneath their feet. When he was seventeen, a spirit from the underworld appeared to Joseph and told him about a gold Bible hidden in a nearby hillside. With the help of his young wife...