Book 3 · In development · no publication date announced
Tianna and the Lost Inca Gold
A legendary missing ransom. A trail hidden in colonial records. A mountain mystery that has defeated explorers for centuries.
Fourteen-year-old Tianna Howard follows new evidence from European archives to Ecuador and the Llanganates Mountains, where history, greed and dangerous terrain stand between her and the truth.
The history behind the fiction
Atahualpa's imprisonment, ransom offer and execution in 1533, together with later Rumiñahui, Valverde and Llanganates traditions.
Historical status: The Llanganates hidden-treasure story is legendary and unverified.
Fiction boundary: Tianna's investigation, the specific route and the story outcome are fictional or still in development.