A NEW NOVEL – THE 4 Rs

On a day when summer vacation seemed already to have emptied itself of entertainments, a ten-year-old girl is seized by an adventuresome whim. Borrowing a shovel and dragooning her three best companions, she leads them to prospect for buried treasure, but no inkling has she of the power waiting to be unearthed. By the forces of their discovery the quartet are bound together for life to performing good works that brush them against crimes and dangers both accidental and contrived. Follow these 4 charmed children through their loves, triumphs, heartaches and -breaks, and twists of personal fortune. They will make you laugh, weep, tremble with fear, and, if you own even an ember of imagination, convince you of the magic entrusted to and enjoined upon them.