Jack Stark, now a Fellow at the prestigious Hoover Institute at Stanford University has a chance encounter with beautiful heiress Jillian Spencer Tang, an Oxford trained anthropologist. Their peppery, unconventional relationship evolves into a thrilling international escapade to determine the fate of Jillian's missing father, archeologist Sir Royale Spencer. The quest ultimately leads them to the lofty peaks, plateaus, and cloud canyons of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of northwestern Mexico. There, they encounter and are embedded into an ancient Uto-Aztecan aboriginal culture known as Tarahumara. The greatest adventure of their young lives is about to unfold. Also by Robert M. Bersi: Silver Mountain Armed and Abandoned Mount Parnassus Raising Margaret Ann Thus Entwined Shaping our Environment Restructuring the Baccalaureate Think Partnership A Short History of Philanthropy in America The Forever Gift