The "Treasure Hunting Bug" bites Jake Thompson when he spies a metal detector on a billboard. But how could he know what lay ahead when he and his Chocolate Lab strike out for the park to search for buried treasure?

An old key and spent .38 caliber shells Jake unearths, becomes the link to a forty-year-old crime. Its power can either destroy several lives or reunite long, lost lovers. Hidden money, broken hearts, buried secrets, misunderstandings and possible new beginnings all await...with a single turn of that key. Which will it be?