GOLD CANYON (Book 2)
- Reads 250
- Votes 4
- Parts 36
Ongoing2h 41m
Last published Sat, Sep 6, 2025
A woman's grandfather murdered in cold blood.
A treasure map and a stolen journal.
A city hidden beneath the Grand Canyon.
When Tom Logan and Kate Lockhart stumble upon a man with a knife lodged in his back, their honeymoon vacation becomes a journey into the world beneath the Grand Canyon and a search for a hidden city of untold riches. The man's granddaughter, who is in possession of a journal stolen from the Smithsonian Institute that dates back to the 1850's, finds a missing page in her grandfather's attic that leads her to the Grand Canyon. With a mysterious treasure hunter from the Australian Outback hunting them down, Tom and Kate must help the woman find the legendary city that's rumored to be filled with Aztec gold.
Book 2 in the Tom Logan & Kate Lockhart Adventure Series.
All Rights Reserved
#359
action-thriller
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Targeted - A Cindy Powell Detective Story
Cindy Powell uses detective work that she learned from her father as a young girl in her job as a real estate mogul Benson Easton's assistant. Benson needs to know every detail about an associate before doing business with them. It's Cindy who digs up that information. When she has a complex case, she requests help from her police detective boyfriend, Sam. While investigating several new possible clients for Easton Real Estate, she receives threatening messages. Someone has something to hide, and they'll do anything to keep their secrets buried. Cindy becomes targeted the deeper she delves into their life. *** I wake up disorientated, with my head pounding. I touch the sensitive spot on my temple. My hands are extended and handcuffed to a water pipe. I take a moment to glance around the room that is now my prison. Slowly, everything comes back to me. How will Sam find me now? I gasp when I hear the door above me squeak open. I close my eyes while I listen to the heavy footsteps descending the stairs. "Please hurry, Sam," I whisper to myself in despair.Complete
TWISTED ICE (ONC 2023)
Five friends, one is a killer. On fall break, twenty year old Eliza Goodchild sets off with four of her college friends for a remote cabin in Aspen, Colorado. When a blizzard strikes without warning, their SUV skids off an embankment and disappears into a wooded ravine. In the whiteout, they get lost and find themselves in a frigid wilderness where every wrong move can spell certain death. In their struggle to survive, they learn one of them is a killer. Everyone has secrets and motives, but when the killer claims a second victim, they realize all of them are targets in an icy twisted plot to get away with the perfect murder, or should we say, murders. Open Novella Contest 2023 ~~The Writing Prompt I selected~~ 5. Flip the coin and make a life choice with it. Two choices, one coin, and no turning back. Do you dare?Complete
Tell or Die
Two years ago, Malik Brooks was a rising literary star-until a scandal shattered his career. Now hiding out in the sleepy town of Eastbridge, he's a ghost of the writer he once was... until Jamila Carter walks into his life. She wants him to write her story. Days later, she disappears. As Malik begins digging into the fragments she left behind, he uncovers something far darker than a tragic backstory-secrets tied to Eastbridge's most powerful elite. And someone is willing to kill to keep them buried. With the help of sharp-eyed Detective Sanaa Monroe, Malik races to expose the truth. But the deeper they go, the more dangerous the game becomes. Jamila's life isn't just a story. It's a trap. And telling it could get them all killed.Complete
Burn Out (ONC 2021) β
Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2021 All love stories come to an end and so must Logan and Cassie's. However, as they plan to take the big and hard final step towards annulling their sixteen-year-long marriage, life gets in the way to make things even harder and takes them on a strange and unexpected adventure. "The greatest thing about being kidnapped with your estranged lover is that you're forced to face all the issues you've tried the hardest to run from." Prompt 71 "This is our last dance, my dear," They say, to which you reply, "Then make it the best dance, my love." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Completed; 2/05/21 Word count; 30,000Complete
CHERRY-PICKED
The Federal Bureau of Investigation team and their consultant, Luke set out to investigate the kidnapping of a rich couple, until they soon discover that the wrong couple was abducted. They were the victim of mistaken identity or at least, that's what it seemed like. Did the perpetrator make a mistake, or was that the plan all along? Find out in this gripping thriller novelette!Complete
Ghostmask's Favourite Girl (NOVELLA)
"π° ππππ ππ πππππππππ ππ π ππππππ πππ, ππ ππππ ππ πππ πππππππππ, πππ π π πππ ππππ πππ ππππ, ππππ πππ ππππ." Kate Pierce craves dark romance books masked, possessive men, deadly obsession, and twisted love. But when a masked stranger starts sending her polaroids, calling her kitten, and promising to play... her fantasy turns real and fatal. He knows her secret. He knows what she did. And now, he wants her. A killer with obsession in his eyes, blood on his hands, and her name on his tongue. Kate thought it was just a game. Until he told her what he was. Some obsessions aren't fictional. Some mistakes don't stay buried. And some men will kill to keep you. π»ππ ππππ ππππππ πππ π πππ ππ ππππ πππ πππ.Complete
Him & I β’ Ransom Drysdale
"πΈ'π πππ πππππ ππ ππππ πππ π ππππ, π πππ ππ’ πππππ πππ ππ’ πππππ, πππ πππ ππππππ ππππππ- π’ππ'ππ πππ πππππ πππ." "πππ πππ'π ππππ πππ’πππππ πππππ ππ." βΎ After a failed attempt at a marriage with a narcissistic man who never actually loved her, Sloan Parker ran away. She ran from her entire life, leaving what little of it she still had behind, and kept running until she thought she found a safe place to stop, even finding a job as a popular authors personal assistant. But of course, she couldn't live her life safely forever, and when the authors grandson, Ransom Drysdale, stormed into her life, no one could've seen coming just how both of their lives would change. History will repeat itself as the young couple get thrown into a whirlwind of emotions and events. Relationships will be tested, all in a desperate last attempt at something worth living for. Something real. - Set in a Knives Out AU where Harlan Thrombey's murder never occurred. β οΈοΈ RATED MATURE FOR SMUT, ADULT CONTENT, AND COARSE LANGUAGE β οΈοΈ WORD COUNT (excluding authors notes): 99 920 words. - RANKS: #1 in knivesout (11/12/22) #6 in ransomdrysdale (14/1/2022)Complete
GOLD RIVER (Book 1)
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.Complete
Cindy Powell uses detective work that she learned from her father as a young girl in her job as a real estate mogul Benson Easton's assistant. Benson needs to know every detail about an associate before doing business with them. It's Cindy who digs up that information. When she has a complex case, she requests help from her police detective boyfriend, Sam. While investigating several new possible clients for Easton Real Estate, she receives threatening messages. Someone has something to hide, and they'll do anything to keep their secrets buried. Cindy becomes targeted the deeper she delves into their life. *** I wake up disorientated, with my head pounding. I touch the sensitive spot on my temple. My hands are extended and handcuffed to a water pipe. I take a moment to glance around the room that is now my prison. Slowly, everything comes back to me. How will Sam find me now? I gasp when I hear the door above me squeak open. I close my eyes while I listen to the heavy footsteps descending the stairs. "Please hurry, Sam," I whisper to myself in despair.
More detailsContent Guidelines