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One week after hitting publish as a total debut nobody, I already had a live event booked because I pitched a Gold Rush heist “floor show” instead of a quiet book signing.

A stolen pair of antique Levi’s drags Officer Paige Gold into the legendary Gold Rush hustle of “John-John,” a Chinese laundryman who turned dirty jeans into a secret fortune and the first clue in a deadly conspiracy.

Every novel starts with a “what if.”For my mystery-thriller The Emperor’s Curse—book one in A Chinese Holiday Murder Mystery—that “what if” began in a very ordinary way: with a freak storm, a washed-out cave, and a fossilized chunk of amber hiding flecks of strange gold dust.