Franklin’s Treasury: the Secret That Bought a Nation #2 of the Founding Fathers Conspiracies

THE GOLD IS LOST. THE SECRET IS CURRENCY.1787. The American Revolution is won, but the peace is bankrupt. The legendary Oak Island gold—which was supposed to pay the nation’s debts—lies irretrievable beneath ninety feet of seawater. Now, the new Republic is drowning in debt, and its paper money is worthless.Benjamin Franklin knows the end is near. Confined to his Philadelphia garden by age and gout, the “Sage of the Revolution” is no longer a charming diplomat—he is a dying lion protecting a final, dangerous secret. He possesses the Sinclair Inventory, a Templar deed from 1398 that legally invalidates the British Crown’s claim to North America. It is the ultimate leverage—a weapon that won the war but could destroy the global economy if exposed.Franklin needs a tomb for his secret. He needs a vault that can never be breached.He recruits Elara Vance, the brilliant engineer who survived the traps of Oak Island. Still living in disguise as a man in a city growing suspicious of secrets, Elara is tasked with designing the foundations of the new Bank of the United States. Publicly, it is a monument to finance; privately, it is a fortress designed with a deadly hydraulic kill-switch connected to the city’s waterworks.But they are not building in peace.From the shadows of London, the spymaster Banastre Tarleton has launched a new kind of war. Knowing the gold is gone, he targets America’s credit, unleashing a flood of counterfeit currency to shatter the economy and force Franklin’s hand.Caught between Franklin’s manipulations and Tarleton’s saboteurs is Alexander Hamilton. Ambitious, arrogant, and obsessed with financial stability, Hamilton demands to know what collateral is backing his new National Bank. He suspects Franklin is building the nation’s credit on a bluff—and he is right.As the cornerstone of the Treasury is laid, Elara must defend her construction site in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. The wealth of the United States is not based on gold, but on a 400-year-old blackmail letter. And for the nation to survive, the truth must be buried forever.History is written by the victors. It is funded by their secrets.