The pristine lakes and forests of Minnesota hold secrets. When a fortune in US twenty-dollar gold coins, belonging to a tribe of Northern Mississippi Indians, vanishes in 1868, it sets off a 147-year chain of events from Minnesota s land of sky blue waters to the exotic Cayman Islands. Meanwhile, two iron-willed men seek the gold for their own individual destinies one revenge, the other redemption. A copper vase containing the location of the Indian treasure holds the answer for them both, but it too has disappeared or has one of them unknowingly possessed it all along? "