Forbidden Worlds #40

Sergeant Arthur Jenkins completes a dangerous wartime mission off the coast of Italy in 1944, only to lose the gold he was carrying when forced to abandon it in the sea to escape enemy capture. Years later, after the war ends and Jenkins marries, he returns to that same Mediterranean coast on his honeymoon—where an underwater discovery may finally solve the mystery of the lost gold.

Billy Cloud, a landscape painter of partial Native American descent, rents a remote cabin in the Western plains to focus on his art—only to receive a mysterious midnight phone call directing him to dig between two great pines at Whitefaced Bluff. When the cryptic voice calls again with the same insistent message, invoking his ancestral heritage, Billy can't resist investigating what he assumes is an elaborate prank. What he uncovers in that buried spot will transform his quiet retreat into something far more extraordinary.