Old Man Lowery trudges into a small-town bar in New Mexico one day looking for two audiotapes that have been long forgotten. To get them, he's willing to kill the man who might have them. While bar owner Sam Hewett survives the encounter, he can no longer focus on the present. Instead, he's forced to examine his past, back to his days in high school and his adventures with Jake, Michael, and Kevin. As teenagers, they had not only discovered a treasure of gold on a Navajo reservation, but a lost civilization that mixed Christian and Navajo beliefs in terrible ways. Now, Lowery's obsession to recover the forgotten treasure forces the men to revisit a terrible series of events that will connect them forever. If they don't find the treasure, a curse that has remained dormant for many years is certain to be unleashed. Explore friendship, Native American culture, and the nature of evil in The Ancients.