the Lost Kingdom: Secret of Golden Mask

Three thousand years ago, a mountain kingdom in the heart of ancient China built a temple to rival heaven itself - and then, in a single catastrophic season, buried it and vanished from history. In 1986, archaeologists unearthed the wreckage: shattered golden masks, a sacred bronze tree, a king's ransom in ritual treasure, smashed and interred with a care that looked less like plunder than prayer. The Lost Kingdom tells the story no inscription ever recorded - of the craftsman who forged those treasures, the king who believed his ancestors spoke through bronze and fire, and the war with the mighty Shang Dynasty that reduced a golden age to rubble. When the kingdom's last heir flees into the mountains with nothing but a bloodline and a grudge, he sets in motion a rebellion that will help topple an empire - and give his buried gods one final purpose. A historical epic of faith, craft, and vengeance, inspired by one of archaeology's greatest unsolved mysteries.