A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Recurring elements in the story’s premise.
An isolated house rumored to hide a fortune draws visitors after its secretive owner dies.
Beneath the stars of the steppe, shepherds and an overseer trade legends of treasure and wonder what happiness might be.
A reclusive naturalist follows a cryptogram from a found parchment into the South Carolina woods in search of pirate treasure.
A shipwreck survivor in a diving suit is mistaken for a god, but keeping up the role may cost him the treasure he came to recover.
A young builder finds a chest of silver beneath his fiancée’s garden and discovers that getting rich is harder than finding treasure.
Two exhausted adventurers follow a stolen treasure map into a tropical forest, certain that murder has put a fortune within reach.
A boy shelters an injured wanderer while his Louisiana family faces losing the money for his schooling.
Explorers land on a dead planet and discover that one weapon has outlived the civilization it was built to defend.
Treasure hunters on a remote Pacific island discover that a Martian parasite can unite animals and people into one obedient mind.
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