Gold, a summer story

From the e-novel's inside flap: Mark and Susan's marriage is on the rocks. Their east Charlotte home is entering foreclosure. The kitchen is being wallpapered with unpaid bills. When Mark finds a pair of record-setting gold nuggets while wandering around a deceased friend's house, an erotically charged, suspense-laced, thought-filled gambit begins, twisting through the Carolina Beach tourist season. Success slips through Mark's hands like grains of sand.
Gold fever takes its toll in the steamy coastal heat. Who - or what - was chasing him? . and why? Susan, a Cherokee Native American, has had it; she can't continue in this sordid sexual saga. She exits stage bereft. Subsequent chances for discovery are blown until David from Raleigh arrives to pick up a new trunk door at an auto salvage yard in Wilmington. A second odyssey soon begins in which no one can be trusted.
Suspicion reigns. The scheming and deception soon reach a fatal nadir. A young Haitian lady, an aspiring novelist, takes notes and gives up her heart, mind and body along the sensual way. An easy future awaits. All is going swimmingly; the surf is calm. Then a tragic rogue wave strikes yet again. Why? The Filipina TV reporter knows more than any of them think. Will she go to the cops? Will she cut a deal? Will she turn a blind eye? Will she look for the primal source? Will she throw the hungry dog a bodacious bone? But most importantly, will she survive the golden curse?