![]() ![]() But after one classmate is arrested and another one is murdered, Lian realizes she must escape before a family secret puts her in danger too. Lian becomes friends and forms a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. The students’ common duty to safeguard the Library of Legends creates unexpected bonds. And it is not just the refugees who are at risk Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure: a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends. Lian and a convoy of students, faculty and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by the constant threat of aerial attack. When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. ![]() “Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are. From the author of Three Souls and Dragon Springs Road comes a captivating historical novel in which a convoy of student refugees travel across China, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan ![]()
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