by Kari Maaren
All Freddy wants to do is navigate high school with as little trouble as possible. Then someone moves in next door–two extremely odd someones.
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Beijing, 1322. Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father’s death, Johanna finds lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna’s destiny–if she has one, lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road–the Silk Road–that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of the Indies and the jewels of the Indus to the markets of the west. But first she must survive treachery and betrayal on a road beset by thieves, fanatics and warlords.
Share This Post With People You Know:Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writer’s retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily’s young single-mother housekeeper. At a Halloween mystery fundraiser at Windy Corner, someone is found dead and Windy Corner’s very own detective, Luke, is reluctantly forced to investigate Katie. Will he figure out who the murderer is before Katie ends up in jail or someone else is killed?
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