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From award winning writer Daniel Monk comes a ravishingly published epic of innovation and love occur a global where secret can be found in rock and in water, in dragons and in men–and within the chains that bind them.Deposed by way of a bad usurper, a emperor flees together with his courtroom for the little area of Taishu. There, with a diminishing military, a tricky mom, and a resentful population–and his only friend an area fishergirl he requires like a concubine–he makes for his last stand.In the hills of Taishu, a miner discovers an enormous bit of jade, the powerful nutrient whose intake may present the emperor with superhuman characteristics. Aiming to provide the rock towards the embattled emperor, Yu Shan finds herself transforming into something significantly more than human, something forbidden.Meanwhile, an excellent monster lies underneath the strait that divides Taishu in the mainland, bound by stores that must certanly be continuously renewed by the miracle of the group of monks. A slave presumes the horrible stress of maintaining the monster subdued, once the monks are slaughtered with a willful sailing chief.