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The new acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art faces numerous challenges, including her own pregnancy and the disappearance of her mentor, the former director, who has gone on an archaeological dig in the Taklamakan Desert. By the author of The Frequency of Souls. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Promise Whittaker, the diminutive but decisive acting director of the Museum of Asian Art, is pregnant again--and that's just the beginning of her problems. Her mentor, the previous director, has suddenly quit, and is on a dig in China's Taklamakan Desert. Her favorite curator has dropped a priceless porcelain bowl, once owned by Thomas Jefferson, down the museum's steps. Another colleague has been embezzling from the museum to pay for her fertility treatments. And her far too handsome ancillary director is clearly up to no good. Promise's offbeat efforts to hold everything together make her a character who, in the words of the NewarkStar-Ledger, "you'll be falling in love with before you've turned the first page."
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