"While training for a marathon race, Beth Pierce encounters spirits of past lives around her. This gorgeous young graduate student learns that she is a medium who has psychic powers to see early Welsh pioneers who settled in central Kansas in the late 1850s. After Ron Cannon and Dwight Watt, her professors at a local university, unearth an ancient iron coffin, Beth begins to reveal the tale surrounding it. She joins a teams of professors and other graduate students who unravel the mystery of the coffin's origin. This intense academic investigation by an experimental class culminate in an unlikely hiding place of a lost treasure."--back cover.