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The Ghost of Mercury River

by Carol Roberts

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ADVENTURES OF THE GHOST, KONG HAO, MASTER ARTISAN, AFTER BEING SET FREE FROM 2400 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT IN THE TOMB OF CHINA’S FIRST EMPEROR

In 210 BC Kong Hao, Master Artisan, has waited over 2400 years to escape the treasure-filled underground tomb of China’s first and greatest emperor. With his fellow artisans Kong was imprisoned alive to keep them from disclosing the hidden mechanism that protects the tomb from grave robbers. Ben Coggins, a young American, stumbles into a hidden entrance that needs him a full moon at just the right position and angle to enter. Once inside the tomb it seems impossible to get out but teamed with the inventive ghost they manage it, Ben carrying Kong’s bones on an adventurous journey across 600 miles of China. Their goal is Qufu, the home of Confucius and the ancestral home of Kong. For the ghost to be buried in the huge Confucian Family Cemetery is the only way to go on to the next life. Ben’s kindhearted nature is pushed to the limit as he tries to get Kong, and eventually several other ghosts, safely buried without ending up in a Chinese prison. Along the way he meets unexpected adventure, ghosts from different eras of history, and eventually love.

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 330 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 26, 2019)
ISBN10: 1977213782
ISBN13: 9781977213785
Genre: FICTION / Fantasy / General

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Carol Clark Roberts, the daughter of missionary parents in China, spent her early and teen-age years in a China occupied by Japanese forces followed by a brutal civil war and Communist takeover. Forced to flee, Carol’s family landed up in the southern Philippines for two years and then back to the United States. There Carol attended college, married, and started a family. For fifteen years she wrote and photographed original filmstrip stories for schools and churches. Later she turned to writing six novels, mostly inspired by her love for China. Her first published novel, For the Love of China, came out of her experiences and research. She has returned to China twelve times, finding locations where family members were born and died, and locating buildings in which she had lived and attended school. She is the mother and step-mother of eight and grandmother of fifteen. Carol currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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