But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has. Her intelligence captivates an emperor-and alienates women at the court. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. From there he emerges years later-and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles towards the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north. That moment on a lonely road changed his life-in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. Volume 1 of this epic novel introduces Ren Daiyan, who was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate of Kitai.
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