The Keepers Of Puhar

Some treasures are meant to stay buried. Some secrets are already for sale. When twelve-year-old Anika discovers a shard of ancient pottery on Marina Beach after a devastating cyclone, she thinks she's found a piece of forgotten history. Her grandmother, a retired epigraphist, confirms the impossible: the inscription is from Puhar, the legendary Chola port city swallowed by the sea two thousand years ago. But Anika's discovery isn't the beginning of a rescue-it's the leak that exposes an ongoing theft. As Chennai's Metro extension cuts through buried Chola ruins and a shadowy heritage recovery company moves faster than any archaeologist, Anika and three other children are drawn into a race spanning sixteen months. Underwater, they map a drowned city. Underground, they witness history being erased to keep trains on schedule. And in the spaces between, they learn that the adults who claim to protect the past may be the ones selling it. The Keepers Of Puhar is a gripping adventure about four kids discovering that finding something precious and protecting it are two very different things-and that the sea never gives up its secrets without a cost. Dive into a story where ancient history collides with modern greed, and where a lonely girl discovers she belongs to something much older, larger, and more endangered than she ever imagined.

Pages: 390, Paperback, Kbc LLC Publishings