While doing research for a book he is writing, retired crime reporter Mark Daniels reads about the murder of a Florida Keys man, a man rumored to have discovered a fortune in sunken Spanish treasure. Mark follows the case of the murdered treasure hunter from a distance until he meets a woman who draws him in deeper and people begin to die. Mark gets caught up in the rumor of treasure and a trail of death. He learns in this case, “Dead me do tell tales.” Follow the dream of treasure; from the captain of a Spanish Galleon who smuggled chests of silver coins aboard his ship, to local Keys boys who discover the riches hundreds of years later, to modern day pirates who will do anything in pursuit of the treasure