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What happens when a successful family man who has more cracks underneath his surface than a shattered mirror collides with a Cherokee curse, a fortune in gold coins stolen before the Civil War and the discovery of his family’s darkest secrets—Ten Days to Madness.

Only Charlie Parker knows that his image as a successful, well-respected family man is a complete lie and with his life collapsing around him he travels to his secluded mountain home. The property has been in his family for generations and hidden in his father’s library Charlie discovers a bizarre diary written by what Charlie believes to be a madman. The diary claims a rogue tribe of Cherokee Indians stole a fortune in gold coins before the Civil War and hid the treasure in an ancient burial cave in a remote part of the Appalachian Mountains.

Compelled by forces he doesn’t understand, Charlie embarks on a tumultuous journey to discover if the diary is true. Through his research Charlie learns his family has more skeletons in its closet than a graveyard and his life is turned up-side-down. With the diary and by piecing together old newspaper accounts, Charlie learns that his ancestors were responsible for the execution of a group of Cherokees, all because of their greed to steal the hidden gold.

As a result of their heinous crime a curse has been placed upon their family and Charlie is forced to face the demons unleashed by his family from so long ago. As Charlie discovers more about his family’s curse, he is haunted by nightmares, tormented by a strange man claiming ownership of the diary and terrorized by Cherokee spirits known in Indian mythology as The Nunnehi. His horrifying discoveries send Charlie spiraling into an alcohol fueled frenzy to find the Cherokee gold, no matter the cost.

Does the gold exist? Are the bizarre events really happening to Charlie or has his mind finally collapsed under the pressures of mental illness, alcohol abuse and a failed business? Those questions linger in the reader’s mind until the final page as Charlie battles internal demons and external monsters to discover the truth about himself, and the legend of the Cherokee gold.