The Shadow Over Myeong-dong

<p><strong>Martin Dench's 18th novel finds him charting exciting new territory exploring Korean mythology and reincarnation to create a remarkable timeless story in which love truly proves stronger than death.</strong></p><p></p><p>It is the year 647. Princess Jeonghwa of the Korean kingdom of Silla is married into the powerful Tang dynasty of Imperial China. Unwanted by her husband and valued only as a political bargaining tool she finds herself at the centre of a terrible brutal tragedy that will change her life forever.</p><p></p><p>Thirteen centuries later in 2001 Kade Morgan travels with his Korean girlfriend Sunny Lee and his agent Moon Park to Seoul to commence work on a book that he hopes will make him the darling of the alien-conspiracy world. He soon discovers however that the plan he had mapped out for his trip is entirely different to the one that karma has in store.</p><p></p><p>Accompanied by his enigmatic and mysterious interpreter Geulimja Kade is plunged into a hidden world he never imagined could exist. A world in which the creatures of ancient myth step out of the shadows of the past to seize the present.</p><p>And when the events of 647 begin to play out once again in 2001 Kade begins to realise that only a supreme sacrifice can end the story and save the woman he loves.</p>