Immerse in a chivalrous adventure of a timeless age of Ancient China. An era where the immortals lived among the mortals and the mortals were immortalized through their exceptional achievements.
Lord Ejun, a prince from a wealthy kingdom, fled a rebellion to find himself stranded and saved by a barbarian woman - Yue Maiden. The most unlikely romance happened between them, which made his name immortalized forever in a timeless poem.
Yue Maiden - a key member of King Goujian's victories against the Fuchai of Wu State. With her legendary swordsmanship, she immortalized Goujian and her name in the story of Yue conquest of Wu.
Ying - an immortal girl with a dark childhood. A beauty who feasted with kings. A beauty who used her charms and her sword to fight for justice for slaves and commoners.
Xuanye - an immortal sword-forger, a military genius who recorded battles and timeless war strategies.
Xi Shi - one of the Four Beauties of China. A mortal girl whose name was immortalized as a beauty who collapsed a nation
Fan Li - a mortal man whose name forever remembered as the wealthiest man in Chinese civilization
Their lives and stories are retold in the Records of the Immortals
MIKE BOND has been called the “master of the existential thriller” by the BBC and “one of the 21st century’s most exciting authors” by the Washington Times. He is a bestselling novelist, environmental activist, international energy expert, war and human rights correspondent and award-winning poet who has lived and worked in many remote and dangerous parts of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for what is good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of international politics and multinational corporations, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.