Julia has a reputation for weaving tall tales and as a Harvey Girl, that kind of behavior is not allowed. When she is given the opportunity to transfer to a different Harvey House, she takes advantage of the new place to reinvent herself. She makes a pact with her supervisor to tell the truth, and only the truth.
In working at El Tovar near the Grand Canyon, she hears of a the legend of the treasure of Cibola. On her days off, she goes exploring and finds a cave with a Spanish helmet with a scroll and a few pouches of gems inside. Julia realizes that the legend was real. Once she finds out that she can keep the gems she found, she enters into a partnership with a jeweler who was contracted to provide jewelry to the resort and instruction to some of the Hopi who wish to know how to make the jewelry.
As luck would have it, Julia's past catches up with her in the form of a waitress from her former Harvey House posting. Florence, the waitress, makes life difficult for Julia. When Florence takes her vicious pleasures too far, she ends up getting fired.
The story is not complete without a couple of bad guys to round out the plot. Kimberley Woodhouse has created a slow-moving but entertaining novel that is great for reading during short snippets of time. She does a great job at delineating how Julia overcame many difficult roadblocks in her life. Four Stars.
Bethany House provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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