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    The Counterfeit Lighthouse: Navajo Footsteps in Korea
    The Counterfeit Lighthouse: Navajo Footsteps in Korea
    The Counterfeit Lighthouse: Navajo Footsteps in Korea
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    The Counterfeit Lighthouse: Navajo Footsteps in Korea

    By Lisa Shea

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    Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.

    Shash Hayou had been lost in action along with his best friend, Charlie Atene.

    But Charlie was alive. And the more Amber discovers, the more she questions everything she once held as true. 

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    The Counterfeit Lighthouse is book one in the Navajo Footsteps in Korea series. Lisa's novellas are written without explicit intimacy or violence. As such they are suitable for teens and up. 

    Half of all proceeds from this series benefits battered women's shelters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLisa Shea
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386057246
    The Counterfeit Lighthouse: Navajo Footsteps in Korea
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    Lisa Shea

    I love writing in a variety of genres. I currently have over 300 books published in all lengths from full 500+ page novels down to short stories. I love writing series. Some are with unconnected characters, like the 14 full-length medieval novels with a sword being passed from heroine to heroine. Some have connected characters, like the 31 mini-mysteries featuring a detective in Salem, Massachusetts. All of my books are written "clean" with no explicit intimacy, no harsh language, and no explicit violence. All are suitable for teens and up.For a full listing of my books please visit:http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/gettingyourbookpublished/lisalibrary.html

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      The Counterfeit Lighthouse - Lisa Shea

      Chapter 1

      First knock on the stone bridge before crossing

      ~ traditional Korean proverb

      Amber clutched the small stainless-steel urn against her chest, the brisk salt air whipping her long, auburn hair into her eyes. Just behind her, an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of a mermaid, weathered to a sea green, looked in desolation out over the starlit Sea of Japan. Amber knew exactly how that mermaid felt. Alone. Abandoned. Just wanting to go home.

      Amber’s thoughts flitted the thousands of miles back to Arizona, back to the Navajo reservation where she had been born. Where her father had been born.

      She wanted her father back.

      She blinked away the tears and stepped forward to the dark water, unscrewing the metal lid. The powdery, gray residue within was all that remained of her father. Amber’s shoulders hunched in. She was only thirty – far too young to be facing this loss. But life wasn’t about fair or even. It piled burdens on your shoulders and either you bore them or you broke.

      Her father had taught her that.

      She glanced up and down the rocky beach, but there was nobody in sight. It was why she had come out so late, when only the sliver of a crescent moon cast a pale light onto the wave-lapped shore. She wanted this one, final moment with her father to say goodbye. To wish him peace. To pray he found solace in the world to come.

      She lifted the urn.

      She slowly turned it upside-down.

      The wind picked up, and a stream of silver-gray particles swirled across and out over the water, streaming east, east, toward Japan. She imagined those winds lifting her father up over the island and continuing past, over the countless miles of the Pacific Ocean. Then swirling, spiraling, and coming to rest in her rural village in northeastern Arizona. To the small two-bedroom house which she, her mother, and her father had shared for her entire life.

      Home.

      Tears did come, now, as she thought of her mother sitting alone at the dingy Formica kitchen table, undoubtedly with a glass of bourbon before her. Her parents had been happy once. Amber knew it from the smiling photos

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