They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it. To keep it safe until they could return, one of them placed a tapu on it.
A tapu so that anyone who tried to touch the gold would die.
It might be cursed but that won't put Titch off. Could the hidden gold be the way to fix her family's money problems?
Titch, her cousins and new friend Tania set out to find the gold. But an unexpected encounter with a creature from the nearby river sees Titch learn about her own Maori heritage and the dangers of messing with tapu.
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