"Hernando Cortez had lived his life. The glory had been his. God watched over his deathbed, and the gold...its secret would soon be buried with him. Ten years ago that Reese Sullivan rode away from his wire Vanessa and young son Trey. His reasons were strong. And his own. Vanessa used her beauty and cleverness to seduce an ambitious and kind Wes Underwood. Now he was dead. Ambushed and robbed. And with a cold irony, she has come to Detective Reese Sullivan the [sic] hunt the killers down. Now an angry and bitter son will ride with the father he hates to avenge the death of the step-father he loved -- and something more; to reclaim what was taken from his step-father's body -- the key to a vast and fabled treasure. They will embark on a perilous journey that will pit father and son against unseen enemies, natural disaster, and each other -- while back home in El Paso the women they love face an unimagined danger at the terrifying end of the..." --from jacket.