the story starts off over three-hundred years in the past, while the reasonable People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and different fabled and wonderful creatures of a dozen lands—fled the outdated global for the hot, looking haven from the methods of guy. With them got here their important jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... yet then the reasonable humans vanished, taking with them their twelve fantastic treasures. and so they remained hidden till now...

Across North the United States, those twelve treasures, over ten-thousand cash in worthy jewels, are buried. the main to discovering each one are available in the twelve complete colour work and verses of The Secret.

Yet the secret's even more than that. in the end, you could examine not just the whereabouts of the reasonable People's treasure, but additionally the trendy types and hiding areas in their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, tradition Vultures, West Ghosts and different pleasant creatures on this planet round us. the secret's a box consultant to them all.

Many "armchair treasure hunt" books were released through the years, so much particularly Masquerade (1979) through British artist package Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the 1st individual to resolve the riddle that Williams cleverly concealed in his artwork. In 1982, whereas everybody in Britain was once nonetheless madly digging up hedgerows and pastures looking for the golden hare, the key: A Treasure Hunt used to be released in the US. the former 12 months, writer and writer Byron Preiss had traveled to twelve destinations within the continental U.S. (and most likely Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. each one casque contained a small key that may be redeemed for one among 12 jewels Preiss saved in a secure deposit field in ny. the most important to discovering the casques was once to check one in all 12 work to at least one of 12 poetic verses, remedy the ensuing riddle, and begin digging. on account that 1982, basically of the 12 casques were recovered. the 1st was once positioned in provide Park, Chicago, in 1984 by way of a gaggle of scholars. the second one was once unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by means of contributors of the Quest4Treasure discussion board. Preiss was once killed in an car twist of fate in the summertime of 2005, however the hunt for his casques continues.