Award-Winning Author Pens a Unique Southern Tale When Minerva Jane Jenkins was just 14 years old, she married a man who moved her to the mountains.
After all, how long is one bound by a promise? But the truth of what\'s really buried in the box may be hidden even from her..
As an unlikely friendship develops, Minerva is tempted to reveal her secret to Del.
Neither of them knows quite who they\'re up against when it comes to the old woman on the mountain.
His friend who joins him only wants to find the location of the gold.
Even so, rumors of hidden gold have a way of spreading, and Minerva is visited by a reporter, Del Rankin, who wants to know more of her story.
But she\'s kept that secret.
Now 94, Minerva is nearing the end of what has sometimes been a lonely life.
She is to tell no one about the box or the treasure it contains.
And when he died 50 years later, he made her promise to keep his secret.
He carried with him a small box, which he told her was filled with gold.
Award-Winning Author Pens a Unique Southern Tale When Minerva Jane Jenkins was just 14 years old, she married a man who moved her to the mountains
