A Rebel’s Code

A Rebel’s Code, is the story of a treasure hunt where a fabled pot of gold sits like easy pickings at the end of a tantalizing rainbow. But isn’t that always the scenario envisioned by would-be fortune seekers? Don’t they blindly assume they are the lucky ones, the only ones able to unlock the secret doorway and finally lay claim to a lost treasure? Yet, caution beware. Blind eyes see no peril.

The quest by such adventurous soles is not eliminated by the elapse of time. Whether a search is conducted contemporaneously to when a pot of gold is first placed at the rainbow’s end or many years afterward, the desire to find a lost treasure remains alive in the minds of subsequent generations. As the trail grows cold and dusty through the years, what may have been an astonishing truth can turn into mere legend or rumor. Although the cast of characters seeking the gold may change, only a fruitful discovery will end the mystery and write the last chapter of the book.

In A Rebel’s Code, a young Alabamian is one such seeker. He survives his military service during the Civil War and eventually returns home, disabled but full of heart, only to risk everything he holds dear in an effort to improve on what already matters in his life. He believes the trail to a hidden treasure is fresh and reliable. But is losing what he already has by seeking to find it elsewhere, a worthy trade?

A century later, a makeshift team of three treasure hunters have drawn the same conclusion. Yet, for them, their view of the pot of gold is muddled by the hazy passage of a hundred years of time. They don’t understand their view is just a faint glimpse at what might have been. Unless of course, the clues they have stumbled upon are facts that remove the dust and prove otherwise. Or alternatively, leads the trio to the discovery of a valuable artifact no one knew was lost or even existed. Something utterly incomprehensible that, if true, would have shaken the underpinnings of the War itself.

From such sweeping perspectives in time, the wealth chasers believe that fortune favors the diligent and that they, and only them, possess the key to finding the lost treasure. The prize is close at hand. Or is it?