The Dead Warned Me About the Gold

Jordan Lee

Summary

Description：
At seven years old, Nathan Reed survives a poisoned family dinner because his dead grandfather warns him not to take a single bite.

Twenty years later, Nathan has almost convinced himself the dream was a childhood miracle. Then he loses his job, returns to his quiet rural hometown, and receives another impossible message: there is gold hidden beneath the Reed family's ancestral house.

The treasure should be Nathan's chance to rebuild his life. Instead, one careless boast sends a relative digging through the crumbling property, where a collapsing wall leaves one man dead and exposes a skeleton concealed for more than two decades. The bones point toward an old killing, an unexplained fortune, and a secret Nathan's family has protected at any cost.

As police descend on the village, greed and suspicion turn relatives against one another. Nathan's grandfather keeps appearing in his dreams, but every warning raises another question about what the old man knew and why the gold was buried. Then Nathan is attacked and forced into a coffin, and the mystery becomes a fight for survival.

Caught between supernatural warnings and all-too-human betrayal, Nathan must uncover who the dead man was, who killed him, and why someone is still willing to murder for what he carried. But the closer Nathan gets to the truth, the more he fears that the greatest danger is not the treasure itself. It is what the promise of wealth can make his own family become.
Author Biography：
Jordan Lee writes fresh romance with playful banter, sizzling attraction, and deeply satisfying resolutions.

Available since: 08/14/2026.

Print length: 70 pages.

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