Red Lacquer Bridge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781425983277)

Her great-aunt's stories were the gateway to a mystery-she claimed to have taught at a school on an island, situated in the heart of the Los Angeles harbor. She described a Japanese fishing village complete with shops, a church, a temple, and a small elementary school. But the village was gone, and no one seemed to know anything about it. Twenty-two years after the death of her Aunt Lucile, Maggie Shelton was given a small cardboard box. In it were treasures from 70 years before-evidence, at last, that her aunt's stories were true. But instead of solving the mystery, the contents posed deeper and darker questions than before. Who had destroyed this village, leaving not a trace of the 500 homes and 3,000 people who had lived there? Why was it a secret? And where were the children whose sweet faces looked out from the photos her great-aunt had kept in the box? The contents of that box led Maggie on a journey that ended with the discovery of a treasure her great-aunt had found two generations before her.

Author: Maggie Shelton, Lucile Cattermole Regan
ISBN-10: 1425983278
ISBN-13: 9781425983277
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2006
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.41d