Love on the Yangtze
A Novel by Michael Pick
In the shadow of the world's largest dam, secrets are rising faster than the water.
Marcus Hollen, a German engineer sent to supervise infrastructure near the Yangtze River, expects blueprints, budgets, and bureaucracy. Instead, he meets Mia-a brilliant and enigmatic cultural activist who leads him deep into a forbidden valley, toward an ancient shrine that was never meant to be found.
When a jade medallion awakens something buried beneath the reservoir, Marcus is thrust into a race against time, government forces, and his own doubts. As ancient memory collides with modern ambition, the two must decide what is worth remembering-before history is drowned forever.
Love on the Yangtze is a sweeping literary thriller about truth, memory, and resistance, set against the haunting beauty of a disappearing world. Mysterious, poetic, and charged with quiet urgency, it asks one simple question:
What happens when the past refuses to stay buried?