The detective Buck Jaspers is hired by the Peruvian consul in Miami to recover two mummies that have been stolen from the national museum. An assistant curator is missing and is believed to be in Florida with the mummies. Buck chases his leads to Orlando and a billionaire who collects mummies.

Mystery

Buck Jaspers narrating "My boot was stuck in black muck again. . . . How did I find myself in Central Florida, chasing an anthropologist, looking for wealthy recluses, driving in road races, and traipsing through swamps filled with alligators and pythons?" A Peruvian consul hires him to find mummies

Buck and his operatives solve the mystery, but an ICE agent and her crew arrive to arrest the thief and his cronies. Buck had been cooperating with her and didn't mind if she got the credit as long as he and his operatives got paid.

Miami, Central Florida, Orlando

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Overcoming Monster/Villain

Twist

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Name: William "Buck" Jaspers

Age: 40s

Gender: Male

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Adventurous,Charming,Confident,Decisive,Empathetic,Engaging,Faithful,Gracious,Educated,Honorable,Leader

Name: Sergio Atahualpa Mishioki

Age: 30s

Gender: Male

Role: Antagonist

Key Traits: Adventurous,Masculine,Aggressive,Charming,Sexy,Confident,Criminal,Decisive,Skillful,Seductive,Secretive,Gracious,Sophisticated,Manipulative,Unapologetic

Name: Carly Noble (ICE agent)

Age: 30s

Gender: Female

Role: logical

Key Traits: Adventurous,Aspiring,Badass,Aggressive,Sexy,Confident,Patriotic,Decisive,Skillful,Flexible,Strong Moral Code,Leader,Honorable

Name: Mo

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Role: sidekick

Key Traits: Adventurous,Aggressive,Complex,Confident,Flexible,Honorable,Aspiring,Charming,Empathetic,Engaging,Educated,Sophisticated,Skillful,Sexy

Legacy Artifacts moves quickly as Buck gathers information about the thief Mishioki, the mummies (Romeo y Julieta de Los Andes),and possible wealthy recluses in Central Florida who have the capacity to build facilities that can hold a mummy collection. To find Mishioki, Buck has operatives staking out Peruvian restaurants and night clubs (Mishioki is a ladies man) around Orlando. One operative he uses is an 18-year-old university student Mo who applies to be his co-driver in sports car races (Mishioki is an enthusiast), but who attracts Mishioki. An ICE agent Carly Noble confronts Buck for stepping on her turf, so he agrees to keep her informed and to let her make the actual bust. Once he narrows his suspects to two wealthy recluses, he must hire a local swamp rat named Serenity to take him and operatives on airboats to investigate the properties. He narrows the search to one and Mo goes there with another operative posing as dates for Mishioki. Buck loses wi-fi contact with Mo, so he leads an intervention to save her and lets Carly know, so she can make the arrest.

I have been a high school English teacher, a bookstore manager, an academic dean, a proofreader/copywriter for the marketing department of a corporation, and an English professor in that order. I have been writing since I was three years old. My first published writing was a haiku poem in 1973. Have published magazine articles, book reviews, poetry and 32 books (most self-published).

Age: 35-54

Target Gender: Universal

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