The Timberline family makes a weekend getaway for a visit to a gold exhibit but it leads to a search for a stolen gold nugget and danger for the entire family.
While Bryce and Jeff go on a two-hundred-mile bicycle trip, Ashley tries to find out what happened to Jeff's sports memorabilia, which have mysteriously disappeared.
Jake Konig, a famous horror novelist, disappears under mysterious circumstances, and the Timberlines become involved when the editor asks Bryce and Ashley's mother to finish writing Jake's last book.