Over the years Florida treasure salvagers swapped tales of sunken fortunes. One story dealt with a gold statue of a Madonna lost on one of the sunken ships of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. Fernandez is called upon to investigate the merciless murder of treasure hunters searching for the Golden Madonna.
 
HISTORICAL SUB TEXT: Eleven treasure-laden ships made up the 1715 Fleet heading to Spain from Havana. On July 31st, 1715 they encountered a hurricane off Florida’s central coast. The winds and waves smashed the ships onto reefs. 300 years after the sinking of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, a salvage company made an incredible discovery worth $4.5 million.
 
Click for Kindle version.