Kirjahaku

Gideon's past brings him back home for a reunion with old friends. They are drawn back into the Superstition wilderness when they learn their childhood companion, prior to his disappearance, left them clues to the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. A dark shadow looms over the deadly desert as the group uncovers centuries old secrets and must choose between truth and treasure.Crooked Top Mountain is the next chapter of the Gideon Goodwin saga. We pick up several months after the events in The Land of Look Behind where Gideon returns home to pursue an old flame. Todd and Joe have been chasing the Lost Dutchman treasure in the Superstition Mountains and stumbled across potential clues left behind by their departed friend Glenn. They chase Glenn's clues back into the mountains in search of what might have happened to their friend and quickly discover they are not the only ones on the trail of the treasure.

You don't have to be a math magician to tell a story, but every good storyteller knows that a great story is one-part truth and two-parts lie. However, the tale I have to tell uses no such ratio. It is a tale of two misfits, forging their way through a world of rules and expectations they would not be bothered with. To dismiss these tales as simply a work of fiction, beyond the bounds of the believable, is to rob yourself of a new perspective both unique and impractical. At the same time, a study of their tales and troubles as a work of non-fiction would prove just as unfruitful, since rhyme and reason rarely come to play. Our story takes place where truths and lies dance together under a strobe light, in the space where reality is safe to fantasize. This is not a documentary and yet not a fable. Not legend, nor to be taken literally. So, I'm left with no choice but to lay their deeds before you with no promise of meaning or moral, only a great story. It is helpful and informative to understand how it all began. So, we will begin at the beginning where most every story really should start. Woodruff and Bob met in a way which most people would consider to be very out of the ordinary, but for them it was just Friday.

From the far side of the island, evil reaches out toward the place of remembrance. With conspiring forces closing in, Gideon must return to The Land of Look Behind to protect a long-kept secret. Torn between two worlds, his present crumbles under the weight of the past as he scrambles to save their future.