Dragon in Chains
(Moshui, the Books of Stone and Water #1)
by Daniel Fox
From award-winning author Daniel Fox comes a ravishingly written
epic of revolution and romance set in a world where magic is found in stone and
in water, in dragons and in men–and in the chains that bind them.
Deposed by a vicious usurper, a young emperor flees with his court
to the small island of Taishu. There, with a dwindling army, a manipulative
mother, and a resentful population–and his only friend a local fishergirl he
takes as a concubine–he prepares for his last stand.
In the mountains of Taishu, a young miner finds a huge piece of
jade, the potent mineral whose ingestion can gift the emperor with superhuman
attributes. Setting out to deliver the stone to the embattled emperor, Yu Shan
finds himself changing into something more than human, something forbidden.
Meanwhile, a great dragon lies beneath the strait that separates
Taishu from the mainland, bound by chains that must be constantly renewed by
the magic of a community of monks. When the monks are slaughtered by a willful
pirate captain, a maimed slave assumes the terrible burden of keeping the
dragon subdued. If he should fail, if she should rise free, the result will be
slaughter on an unimaginable scale.
Now the prisoner beneath the sea and the men and women above it
will shatter old bonds of loyalty and love and forge a common destiny from the
ruins of an empire.
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