To avoid a nap, Tad plays his favorite quiet game with his aunt and together their imaginations take them from their home in Buffalo, New York, to Hong Kong.
Jake Grafton and his wife Callie travel to Hong Kong to determine how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal, but when Callie is kidnapped, Jake's mission takes a more sinister turn.
Surveys the geography, history, government, economy, and culture of this territory on China's southeastern coast, made up of a section of the mainland and 235 islands of various sizes.
As the power of the evil Nightrise corporation increases, Matt and his Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong, where they explore the secretive underworld and meet another Gatekeeper named Scar, whose fate will be crucial to the future of the world.
In Hong Kong, Chan Tze Man, called Simon Chan, leaves high school because he cannot master English, but when he befriends Amy, a Chinese American who knows little Chinese, their unlikely bond gives hope to both.
When war and the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong tears Pei's adopted family apart, she is forced to make it on her own while struggling to keep herself and her extended family alive.
