The Lost Treasure of Cortes

While researching an heirloom gold cross in New York City, clues emerge pointing to the location of a lost treasure Cortes stole from the Aztecs. Gideon Riot, his wife Carmelita, Molly, a sweet looking but hardened cowgirl from Tucson, and Sofie, a historian from the New York library travel to Mexico and search for this elusive cache. Their search takes them from New York to an historic church in Tucson and further to a tiny island in Mexico during the early uprisings of their Revolution. The quartet face unimaginable hazards from other treasure hunters, revolutionaries, and a spy in their midst. The Lost Treasure of Cortes is a story of and the incredible turmoil along the U.S./Mexican border at the height of the Mexican revolution, and a search for the lost Aztec treasure.