Brigham's Bees

They were works of art. Using a makeshift stamping mill fashioned from a Mexican War cannon, master engraver and Mormon bishop Samuel Woodbury hammered out a treasury for Brigham Young in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains -- more than 3,000 gold coins.In 1862, Bishop Woodbury disappeared with Brigham Young's treasury of Deseret while enroute to Salt Lake City. What happened to Brigham's bees?More than a century later, with the legend of Brigham's Bees long faded into the stuff of campfire tales, someone is killing for the secret of Bishop Woodbury. On a black night in Payson Canyon. Deputy Sheriff Brent Merrell and his k-9 partner, Gadianton, narrowly avoid becoming victims of the mysterious legend.Armed with a single, battered coin Brent finds hanging from a tree in the canyon, he digs deep into the history of Samuel Woodbury and the mysterious Bishop's legend. Each move puts him closer to the missing treasure and closer to something he isn't sure he wants to know.