What happens when a crook suffers from Alzheimer's disease and forgets where he buried three million dollars? Bill Taylor, rising track star in Florida, is forced to live in western New York when his father dies. Unable to participate in sports and hating his new school, he is jogging home from school when he is accosted by an ex-con who demands his cut of the money. Bill's reaction? What money? How? Working with Sarah, the girlfriend of a possessive football star at the new school, Bill unravels the mystery behind a Brinks robbery twenty years before. Along the way three people are murdered...

Pen of Mercia is determined not be like his father who quietly submits to the outrages of the King's tax collectors. On the cusp of manhood, Pen learns how to wield a sword so he can defend himself and others. His world is turned upside down when his father, with only his bare hands, subdues an armed soldier. Secrets surround the lad. His best friend, Liana, is remarkably proficient with the bow and arrow. How did she, a girl, acquire those skills and, more importantly, why? The greatest secret of all is Pen's clandestine meeting with a white deer, a legendary creature who, long ago, chose...