Book Two of The Goldfinder series. A seventeen year old has found a huge heart of gold hidden beneath a lake high in the Sierra Nevada--it's the Motherlode. But can he keep it? Dain King is a ruthless killer who captures Petr and sends him down the river tied in an old Indian canoe to scare him into revealing the location of his gold. The canoe goes over a waterfall where Petr is rescued by Paiutes. He falls in love with the Indian medicine woman, Minoah. A bad Indian kidnaps Petr's little sister and uses her to lure Dain King and his men into a trap. The Indians are killed including Minoah's father. Now love turns to hatred and Petr ventures to San Francisco to make a beautiful gift, The Falcon Heart, for Minoah. There he will remember the secrets of gold shaping. There he will discover the terrible price of finding gold.