It is 1849 in Belize. Tosh's father discovers a priceless Mayan medallion, and that is what causes it all: His father's death when the sociopath Isandro Torrico demands Macintosh take him to it; his mother hiding the medallion in a pouch with a false back, admonishing Tosh never to take it off; the hurricane that sinks their ship and, as she calls hopelessly to him from a boat in the storm tossed sea, separates them forever; his struggle to survive alone in a dinghy that carries him to Galveston Island; his rejection of Faun and her urchin colony who tests his morals; his stumbling into the...