"Lara is in a town in County Kerry, Ireland - serving as moral support for her employee, Alex Stewart, who must attend the reading of an old friend's will. The late Eamon Byrne was a well-to-do businessman with a querulous family and a huge estate. Well-versed in Irish mythology, Byrne leaves each of those gathered at the reading a sealed clue to a mysterious treasure, a posthumous ploy to force his family to work together and mend the strife that exists among them." "Caught up in the spirit of the hunt, Lara learns that each clue is a line to an ancient Celtic poem. Line by line, she uncovers clues that lead to more clues - and carry her back in time to an Ireland inhabited by mighty gods and goddesses. But what starts as a lark turns lethal when members of the Byrne household are found dead. More determined than ever to find the treasure, Lara goes up against a grieving family that has closed ranks, the riddles of Irish history, and someone who thwarts her at every turn - with murder."--BOOK JACKET