Golden Fleece

Julian Hawthorne - son of Nathaniel, raised among Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville - turns the American desert into the stage for a glittering treasure romance. West of the Rockies, three men argue over the vanished sea that once filled the basin, while somewhere in the sand lie a lost mine called the Golden Fleece, a relic said to be Montezuma's own, and a woman who knows far more than she will tel...