GOLD RIVER (Book 1)
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A retired treasure hunter with gold in his veins.
A museum curator's daughter held for ransom.
A jungle trail with danger at every turn.
Determined to walk away from his old path, Tom Logan chooses a quiet existence on a Texas ranch. But everything changes when he wakes up in mid-air plummeting toward the Amazon Rainforest. In the jungle, he discovers his lost love, Kate Lockhart, faces the same predicament and challenge he does, find the famed gold room of the last Inca emperor, or suffer a loss neither can bear.
Book 1 in the Tom Logan and Kate Lockhart Adventure Series.
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