French Horns Novel

For nearly two centuries, a treasure has waited somewhere along the Mississippi.

Its story begins in Napoleonic France, crosses an ocean to the American frontier, and becomes entwined with Riverview—a sprawling estate overlooking the river outside historic Natchez, Mississippi.

Generations of the King family inherit the land. They also inherit its secrets.

By 1996, Tim King is watching both his family's former prominence and Riverview itself disappear. Burdened by debt and consumed by the promise of easy wealth, Tim becomes increasingly fascinated by an old Natchez legend: a mysterious Frenchman's treasure that may have been hidden near the property generations before.

Then clues begin to surface.

An old coin.
A forgotten map.
A family mystery.
And a strange tree near the river whose story reaches much farther into the past than anyone realizes.

As the lives of two families reverberate across generations, the search for treasure exposes something far more enduring—secrets of blood, race, greed, sacrifice, and inheritance that have been buried almost as long as the treasure itself.

A sweeping Southern historical mystery of family, legacy, buried treasure, and the enduring power of the past.