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Hundred Ghosts Soup (Robert Chansky)

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Print paperback cover for Hundred Ghosts Soup (Bureau of Eternal Prosperity - Book 1), by Robert Chansky

A Beijing orphan is nearly eighteen. He wants a family and a name, if only for a while. He hacks adoption papers to get them.

He also gets: a long train ride into an empty station in a ghost town. Ghosts. Their leaders, calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Vulpin, are his new parents. They are illusion-casting fox spirits, glamorous, clever, and trapped. They need him to free themselves of the ghosts.

Our hero works for them and accepts their flaws so long as they pretend to be a family. But then he discovers their wonderful meals are illusory. Are the Vulpins up to no good? And the People’s Republic of China will never allow spirits to possess a town. To save them all, he must travel back to Beijing, rifle the Politburo’s files, and find a Minister’s secrets. When he kindles the wrath of the People’s Liberation Army and the Minister of Fate himself, he must penetrate layers of illusions, decide whom he can trust, and learn to cook.

And then there is the matter of the soup’s main ingredient: him.

  • ISBN (eBook): 9781620070383
  • ISBN (Paperback): 9781620070420
Resource credits:
  • Fox mask stock vector: © kuzzie
  • Ceremonial pot stock image © Prasert Wongchindawest
  • Brushes, patterns, flourishes © Deviney
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