A history mystery of gold fever covering more than 150 years written in three timelines woven around the American Civil War, the sinking of S.S. Anglo-Saxon off the coast of Newfoundland, Custer's search for gold and British expansion into Southern Africa. Marcus Edge makes a discovery of papers in his ex-father-in-law's, Sir Hugh Masterson, desk, which takes him on another adventure, which eventually answers questions he had about the origins of Sir Hugh's and his own wealth.