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In 1925 Colonel Percy Fawcett went on an expedition to find the Lost City of Z; the predicted ruins of an ancient city inhabited by a civilized race deep within the unmapped Amazon Rainforest. Neither he nor any of his party returned to England, presumed dead by their families, the press and the Royal Geographical Society. What happened to them in the wilds of the Amazon remains a mystery to this day.In present-day Northumberland, UK, Curtis Craxford; owner of a small Natural History Museum, passed down through many generations of Craxfords, received a strange donation to the insect collection of the museum by an elderly lady claiming that her ancestor was one of the fated troop who accompanied Colonel Fawcett on his expedition all those years ago. Her ancestor survived long enough to send back a large beetle in a wooden box to his daughter back in England. Little did the family know that for all those years, a cryptic message was hidden within the old box, sending Curtis, his girlfriend Naomi and their friend Amy on an epic treasure hunt deep into the Amazon Basin; solving clues and uncovering hidden riddles as they searched for unknown treasures in the relentless depths of the jungle.But what if the treasure they trekked all this way to discover turned out to be more trouble than it's worth, and becomes harder to get rid of than it was to find. What if ancient rituals and evil can be stored? And what if the real challenge of this puzzle was to simply survive?