Drawn to Darkness: Volume 1

Fear struck them to the bone, but curiosity overcame the fear as they inched toward the den. There in the round room was a big black bear curled up for the cold snap. Very quietly Matthew, followed by the rest, eased by the opening to the den and continued to follow the leaves, then he saw it, up through the rock a beam of light. He climbed out between the boulders onto the side of the mountain, much higher up than where they had entered.
Matthew, Clair, John, and Joann had grown close in the small Tennessee town, playing along with the mountain and the river that flowed into the nearby lake. When they found a small rock with a pictograph of an Indian carrying something strange they set off on a quest to solve the mystery of what may be hidden in a cave along the Piney River. Ed, a hermit who lived on the mountain had found some Indian relics and believing for years they had hidden gold somewhere in the area, spent his life searching for it.