Down to Heaven - Tapa blanda

Two biologists survive a helicopter crash in the deep interior of Venezuela. Here they discover a 5000-year-old Chinese city, whose society is based on sexual yoga. Its empress must produce a god-like successor for the society to survive, and the two biologists become caught up in the process.

Born in 1952 in the farmtown of Maceo, Kentucky, Mark Canter has held a variety of jobs from dishwasher to surgical orderly. He has drummed and sang in a rock/jazz group; earned a degree in counselling and become a professional listener in a women's prison in Florida; joined an urban commune that practised a self-styled Zen; become a licensed massage therapist and worked as a male stripper. Ember from the Sun is his first novel.