Buried pirate treasure and a wisecracking heroine lead to romance, adventure, and murder in Prohibition-era Long Island!

Wisecracking Jane Teach had pirate blood, a take-charge attitude, and a penchant for sticking her nose in the wrong places. Sober-minded Bill Popple was from one of Long Island's first families, a conservative-minded young man who walked the straight and narrow. When they met it was loathing at first sight, definitely not a match made in heaven. But with six people trying to kill them over a dead bootlegger's lost fortune and a pirate's treasure secretly buried 300 years ago, they both needed each other.

First Bill Popple, the muscular, serious-minded research student, unearths information that makes the odds high in favor of pirate gold being hidden long ago on what is now Hartman's property. Then Jane Teach, the streamlined girl of ready wit, who seems to know more than Bill does about almost everything, suggests that there may be not one treasure but two, the first one part of her ancestor's lost loot, the second a bootlegger's ill-gotten gains. Next Jane and Bill discover a corpse lying on a beach near Oxbow Bay with gold pieces sunk into its eye sockets.

Soon the pair find themselves up to their necks in mystery and dark doings involving the heterogeneous group of strangers who have appeared suddenly in town to wait and watch for…what? From then on Jane and Bill never experience a dull moment.

How they extricate themselves, and at the same time solve two deep mysteries, adds up to an absorbing novel of skullduggery and sudden death in which excitement and romance mount to an increasingly high pitch and culminate in a wholly satisfying climax.