1784
      Jonas Longfellow, a retired sea captain who has sailed the seven seas and has seen plenty of adventures watches, heartbroken, as his three sons enter into a bitter feud with one another, over a woman whose hand in marriage they are competing for, to the point of life-long bitterness. Jonas Longfellow is on his deathbed and he is thinking of what to do with his stolen fortune.
      In lieu of a will, he writes three letters to his three sons. All three letters contain cryptic references and clues to the location of a fabled treasure that he reportedly had seized on one of his voyage.
      Each letter is so cleverly devised that the treasure can only be found if the three sons resolve their feuds, come together and share their letter with one another.
      They never resolved their feud...

1939
      Aeneas Longfellow's grandfather gives his grandson one of these letters and tells the delightful grandson stories about hidden treasure. Aeneas's grandfather's great grand-uncle is the third son who lived to be 94. The child's imagination is naturally fired up. He ponders, endlessly, the last lines of the letter which seemingly contain a major clue: "In life, as on the seas, quarter all swells. Be all ye in faith of God, for only when the holy trinity enjoin will the light of truth shine forth."

1941
      Aeneas Longfellow's grandfather dies. To Aeneas's amazement, his grandfather leaves a house to him. In that house is a chest which contains that letter. Aeneas still has no idea what the last two lines of the letter mean.

1945
      Aeneas Longfellow becomes a teenager and discovers "more important" things, such as cars, sports, and girls. The letter is forgotten and so is the chest.

1996
      Aeneas Longfellow retires from his job at the Government after 43 years of work and decides to sell his house and move to a smaller one. He rediscovers the chest and subsequently the letter. With plently of time on his hand, he devotes some time to research and discovers, by reading an article, that the treasure that Jonas Longfellow had claimed to have stolen was the fabled Blue Parrot's Gold. He furthermore discovers that the Blue Parrot's Gold was aboard the HMS Bounty, a ship that sank in a big storm just as it had reached Boston Harbor and was never heard of again. Aeneas decides to give up his researches as all his clues lead to dead ends.

October 13, 1998
      Alex Bell, owner and chief operator of the CISO, a salvage operations with questionable reputation and methods is caught excavating with an expired permit. He discloses that he is looking for the HMS Bounty. After some wrist-slapping and fines, he is allowed to resume his operation. The press, however, keeps track of Alex Bell and his progress.

October 14, 1998
      Aeneas Longfellow reads about Alex Bell in the newspaper the next day. He clips out the article and saves it.

October 23, 1998
      Aeneas Longfellow walks past a very old graveyard and suddenly spots a gravestone with the name of the Captain who supposedly helmed the HMS Bounty at the time it sank. He is instantly suspicious. Why had the Captain been given a land burial?
      Aeneas contacts the author of the article describing the sinking of the HMS Bounty. The author confesses to twisting facts and taking literatural freedom to heighten the drama and make the article more compelling. Aeneas contemplates a return to his researches.

June 25, 2000
      Alex Bell announces that he has discovered the HMS Bounty but refuses to divulge further information. The next day, however, someone leaks information that divers sent down to investigate reported that the hold was empty. This fact is reported in the Boston Globe the next day. Alex Bell is found to have excavated on an expired permit again. He is suspended from further salvage activity and ordered out of Boston Harbor indefinitely.

June 27, 2000
      Aeneas Longfellow, upon reading the Globe article on the empty hold, resumes his researches full-time. He logs a lot of legwork. Unfortunately, Alex Bells gets wind of this activity and starts to tail Aeneas.

June 29, 2000
      Alex Bell breaks into Aeneas Longfellow's house, he finds nothing but manages to leave behind a hurricane. Aeneas backs off in order to come up with another strategy.

July 2, 2000
      Aeneas Longfellow enlists the help of George Allen. George is fascinated by the story Aeneas tells him. He agrees to help.

July 3, 2000
      George follows up on the leads that Aeneas gives him. He finds books missing, pages ripped out of magazines and newspapers. Someone is tailing him. Someone is one step ahead of him.

July 5, 2000
      George Allen is frustrated. He decides that this is a fool's fancy and quits. That same night he discovers his close friend has been hiding a gambling debt. If the debt is not paid off soon, his friend will end up in the hospital. George is forced to resume the search for the treasure in the hope that the debt could be solved quickly.

July 8, 2000
      George discovers a second letter. Everything begins to fall in place, rapidly.

July 11, 2000
      Judging by the many things happening to him, George believes he is on the verge of discovery. He redoubles his effort and uncovers, to his amazement, a secret right in the heart of the city of Boston. Unfortunately, Alex Bell is right at his heel. And so are the people that want the gambling debt resolved. With blinding speed, the action unfolds.
      George Allen must stay on his feet. One mistake and everyone is in trouble.
      Unbeknowst to him, another secret, a deep, terrible secret, is lurking, awaiting discovery. When it is discovered, everything blows up. It is all George can do to keep everything from falling apart...
      The search for the Golden Legacy may have started as an innocent childhood treasure story, but its end is far from innocent...