Newest novel by Peter Ragnar

Moonlight Doesn't Wet the Water

The Search for the Jade Spring Immortal

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China, 1943
“When you try too hard, it becomes business;
when you don’t, it becomes art.”

The old man’s eyes were all I could remember when we first met on the mountain trail. I was only seventeen at the time I bumped into him. Well, actually, I didn’t even see him—I was picking blackberries for my mother.

“Dragons live on the mountain,” he said. His voice was smooth and deep. Startled, I jumped, catching my sleeve on the thorny briars. As I tried to tear myself loose, I fell forward toward the stranger, but he was elusive as air. Just when I was about to hit the dirt, he picked me up from behind, laughing in a way my father never laughed. It made me feel funny inside. Not funny like a joke—no, I guess sort of strange. Like he was someone I knew but couldn’t remember.....
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