Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade edge-of-your-seat adventure”
(James Ponti New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he
journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never
had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough
making sure they got by and his schools never taught anything except Western history and
myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the
First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese
underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate
wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to
Zack’s AR gaming headset instead leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by
demons. Now with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset Zack must
journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth all
while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish
the mission in time the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm and he
could lose his mom forever.
