The Gold Hunter: A Goldfinder Series Book - Paperback

by Philip Atlas Clausen (Author)

When seventeen-year-old Petr Valory finds, not just a vein of gold, but the volcanic throat into the heart of the California Motherlode in 1852, instead of becoming the salvation of his pioneer family, it ends in their destruction. When he enters The Luminahee beneath the Gold Lake he experiences a spiritual transformation guarded by the Old Ones for centuries. The vast amount of gold incites the interest of power mad Dain King. Here is a touching love story of brother for sister and youth's desperate struggle to survive the darkness surrounding gold fever rampant on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. Losing everyone he loves drives him to an unbearable desire for destruction. The maelstrom of the Civil War inspires Petr Valory to insane bravery, leading him to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln in Washington City at a meeting of war-weary souls. Finally, Petr Valory returns home, where a mysterious woman has built a stone house on the old homesite of the Valoryvale, leading to a final showdown with Dain King and the destruction of Gold Lake. The historical legend of the "lost gold lake" has never been told in a novel.