McMinn had never had a cross country champion, but a group of runners from Athens had other things in mind. Join them on their quest to make history.

A contemporary quest fantasy story about a dying man who has been given a second chance in life. The main character falls in love with a Cherokee Native woman. But when she disappears in the mountains of North Carolina he discovers an ancient Viking treasure that will cure his illness, bring him and her together and change the history of the world. But the stakes couldn't be higher. An international manhunt to steal the treasure and assassinate him is already underway. And there's another problem. It's the year 2016. The woman he fell in love with is a Cherokee beloved woman from the 1700's.

Over the generations, Cherokee citizens became a conglomerate people. Early in the nineteenth century, tribal leaders adapted their government to mirror the new American model. While accommodating institutional slavery of black people, they abandoned the Cherokee matrilineal clan structure that once determined their citizenship. The 1851 census revealed a total population nearing 18,000, which included 1,844 slaves and 64 free blacks. What it means to be Cherokee has continued to evolve over the past century, yet the histories assembled here by Ty Wilson, Karen Coody Cooper and other contributing authors reveal a meaningful story of identity and survival.