Book Summary

16 yr old Charlotte Pace and her cousin Ansley Jeffries along with friends Moses LeConte and Jack Thomas take a summer trip on the Great Smoky Mountain Steam Railroad Train to Dillsboro North Carolina.

Jack gets into a fight while at a restaurant in town with the local town bully, Winstell Taylor. Jack wins and they quickly leave town going on a trail ride up the mountain.

They hide in a cave at the mountain top and Jack remembers from his history class at school this was the place that a Confederate Gold shipment worth over 4 million dollars disappeared at the end of civil war.

They encounter a huge black bear in the cave and Jack thinks this would be a great place to hide gold. The kids look for the gold. It is an adventure to find the gold and a tale of exoneration and change for Winstell Taylor thanks to Charlotte.