Then she meets a partly-Apache mining engineer named Jonathan Dartland, who is returning home after working in South Africa.

It is not until Dart loses his job after the death of a fellow miner is blamed on him that he, Amanda, and Hugh set out to find the mine.

[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The Washington Post called it a "workmanlike piece of story-telling that expertly integrates romance with color and suspense, a combination hard to beat for popularity.

[14] Mary Bosworth Hobbs of The Birmingham News said it matched Seton's previous works and was possibly superior in maturity of theme.

[15] The novel was adapted into a film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, and Dan Duryea.