Maria's Mystical Guitar

Under Chairman Mao Zedong's "One Child Policy" Jing and Tung are forced to leave their second newborn baby girl at a government building in Guangdong province, China.

Their baby is put up for adoption and adopted by Scott and Linda, a married couple living in New Jersey, USA.

Their baby girl Maria grows up to be a guitar prodigy and internet sensation. Her father Scott is a professional guitarist and has a local guitar cable television series. Meanwhile, back in China, Jing the biological mother can't stop thinking about the baby she gave up some 20 years before and finds a way through her employer to America. Jing reunites with Maria through serendipitous circumstances and decides to kidnap her in the hope to return home to China with Maria.

The story ends with both families coming together by the intercession of the Virgin Mary. What may have been a story on kidnapping and desire, turns into a story of forgiveness and love.

Bob Miles and his wife Janet reside in Southeast Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two Chinese-American children.

Bob has worked as a professional guitarist and is the creator/host of Miles of Music (formerly, World of Guitar) television series. Miles of Music has aired on television for close to 25 years and in many markets including Nashville, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California.

Bob has been honored twice by the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food and Once by The Pearl S. Buck Foundation. Bob also holds two Grammy certificates.