A Treasure Not Lost, a vel, deals with a family in conflict, with the choices perpetuating their discord. Father, mother, and son were fated to be prodigals; their sinning, transgressing separate one from the other-worlds within a world. Tragic encounters, pathos, and fantasies befall the three; their emotional outcomes stem a new reality, contributing to a greater reward. Their individual interventions steered the rescue from their own bondage. At a retreat there emerged a finding in each other, a righting compass to end waywardness, returning to each other in giving and receiving forgiveness. A final discovery released the conspirators from guilt, and the incent from perceptions of sin. Arising from among the fallen, the family began their world anew-but tragedy struck. The triumph they shared turned to grief. The compulsion to find the truth led to the discovery that the devastation was t a tragic happenstance, but a sociopath's gamesmanship having unintended consequences-the admission revealed in a manipulating confrontation which guided the withholding back to the light of self-discovery: A Treasure Not Lost.