With all the suspense, humour and twists and turns of The Billionaire's Curse, The Emerald Casket will delight readers waiting for the sequel and send new readers clamouring for the first book of the Billionaire series.

But their holiday soon turns into a desperate quest to outwit a deadly cult, and to beat Mason Green to the Emerald Casket in a race against time and tide. And you thought your school vacation was eventful.

He lives with his family in Brisbane, Australia. In researching the trilogy, Richard traveled to England, India, France, Italy, and Greece, visiting many of the historical sites featured in the books. What do you do when you're a billionaire, you're thirteen and you've just discovered your family tree goes back a thousand years to a pact made by three brothers to carry three caskets to three secret locations and to protect them for centuries to come? What do you do when you know a bloodthirsty criminal holds the contents of one of those caskets and will stop at nothing to discover the others? Gerald, Sam and Ruby fly to India in Gerald's private jet for a holiday at the home of Alisha Gupta, looking forward to getting away from the exhausting business of stolen gems, bejewelled caskets, thieves and bumbling police officers. One month since Sir Mason Green made off with the contents of the diamond casket, an object of unspeakable power. The Emerald Casket HarperCollins It has only been a month since Gerald Wilkins be-came the richest kid on earth. Richard Newsome is the author of the first two books in the Archer Legacy, The Billionaire's Curse and The Emerald Casket. Fawn Creek Township is in Montgomery County. Print The Emerald Casket (Billionaire #2) Fawn Creek Township is located in Kansas with a population of 1,618. Thirteen-year-old billionaire Gerald Archer and his friends Ruby and Sam Valentine go on vacation to India, hoping to forget about Mason Green and his diabolical quest, but secrets from Gerald's family history and Green's minions have the trio in trouble again Originally published: Australia : Text Pub.

The Emerald Casket by Richard Newsome