"May the crocodile be against you in water and snakes against you on land. The gods will not accept your sacrifices. You and your descendants will be miserable and persecuted!" – Nefertari's curse
Cousins Bernie and Josh have spent years following in their great-great-grandfather's footsteps as travelers and explorers. Inspired by items and stories from Gramps' life chest, they solved dangerous mysteries and discovered treasure in the Great Wall of China, a diamond mine in Tanzania, a Viking village in Norway and an underwater pirate cave in the Bahamas. When they travel to Egypt, however, it's a different story — their luck seems to have run out. After risking their lives again, they come home empty-handed. Is it time to retire from adventuring? Or will the next generation come forward and take up the cause?
Josh's granddaughter April has been hearing stories of Grandpa Josh and Uncle Bernie's adventures since she was a little girl. Now she's a smart, savvy and fearless young woman, and is ready to join the team.
It's a dream come true for grandfather and granddaughter to go on an adventure together, but the prospect of hunting for an ancient Egyptian city inside a mountain is daunting, and a mixture of magic, curses and life-threatening danger is just around the corner.
KIM YOST is the creator of two five-book series: The Life Chest Adventures and The Life Chest Extreme Adventures. A third, The Life Chest Infinite Adventures, has begun.
Kim’s first writing project was the Pumptitude series of motivational books, a trilogy in which he shared life lessons by telling his own stories of challenge, perseverance, and positivity.
Kim also began a family tradition of keeping a life chest, a place of honor to store important keepsakes. Both the Pumptitude lessons and the life chest concept became jumping off points for the Life Chest Adventure books, in which Kim appears as the great-great-grandfather of the main characters of Series One, cousins Josh and Bernie.
To create the most colorful, exciting, and accurate depictions of the locations in the novels, Kim and his team travel to each one. Experiencing the sights, sounds, scents and flavors of a place instills the stories, the descriptions, and even the dialogue with a special spark. Kim calls it the secret sauce.