Brit Axton is a 17-year-old who will not take no for an answer. She’s a tenacious amateur news reporter and sleuth who lives in a Phoenix suburb, and is desperate to find a cure for her friend’s little sister, who has less than a year to live. Book one of the Brit Axton series is Gold Rush. In this adventure, Brit’s grandmother tells her about a nearly forgotten promise from an eccentric friend decades earlier that includes the assurance of a treasure. Such a treasure would be very welcome at such a critical time.
Brit launches into a fast-paced western-states hunt to track down her grandmother’s “treasure” in time to save the clinic, and draws her family and friends into the whirlwind adventure, dodging greedy killers and natural dangers at every step.