Mountain of Songs

Respectable spinsters don't run off with their lovers to hunt down the secret to eternal life.

Unemployed, overqualified, and still scandalously unmarried, Ellie Mallory and her perpetually shirtless surveyor Adam Bates are at it again, chasing whispers of an ancient power through the elegant and treacherous world of late Joseon Dynasty Korea. But this time, they're facing a new sort of enemy—Adam's father, the ruthless American oligarch George Bates... and he's brought along the brother Ada...