For more than two centuries, whispers of lost gold have haunted the rugged depths of Chautauqua Creek Gorge. In the turmoil of the French and Indian War, a military payroll vanished into the wilderness — and into legend. When George Evans IV discovers a two-hundred-year-old journal penned by his own ancestor, he becomes the heir to a mystery that has shadowed the Button-Evans family for generations. George decides to retrace the footsteps laid centuries before. The quest for the legendary cache of gold resolves the Button-Evans family legacy and reveals an ancient secret! A forgotten journal. A buried legacy. A secret waiting to rise from the past.