What a lot of utter overblown empty nonsense. The very story is stolen from a well-known folktale ("The Treasure"); the characters are mere game pieces with absolutely no intellect or emotion (particularly the woman, who has no qualities except that she is beautiful, which we're supposed to assume is enough --blech!); the only quality of suspense is created by the author's failure to explain anything in ways that can be understood by curious, intelligent, thinking readers; and the writing is just abominably bad! What do people see in this book??? Is there such craving out there for spirituality that this insipid fluff is even acceptable? Please look eslewhere for guidance on life; you'll find it in any novel worth it's paper. I'd give it no stars at all, if Amazon allowed that.