Jim Sanford finds more than opal in the arid outback of South Australia. What he thinks is a fossil creates conflict with a powerful American scientist Biddie-Lee Redman. His opal also attracts the attention of Karl Rouse, greedy, corrupt and very dangerous.Redman knows the true value of Sanford’s discovery, and she’ll break all the rules to get it. Her determined quest to own the fossil collides with Rouse’s efforts to gain control of the opal. Murder and violence shatter Sanford’s life and his dreams for the future.It takes a dead man to understand what happened and set things right.
