She Who Became the Sun'Epic, tragic and gorgeous Alix E. Harrow A thoroughly engrossing read with a fabulous, tragic trickster protagonist . . . I've been waiting for a book like this Megan Campisi A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal Zen Cho She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynastys founding emperor. In a famine stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a familys eighth born son, theres

In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit

Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire

As this succession of remarkable discoveries drives Corell to examine his own prejudice

His gift for evoking a certain time and place is manifest

With a killer in the crowd

his body truncated

Gliding effortlessly above the treetops

the king has summoned him to his court in Oxford

she's been newly assigned to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado

Because I don't know my own power

or a man defecating beside the road Lewis senses are awake for sounds or smells

she soon finds herself embroiled in a quest for a magic more powerful - and more dangerous - than she could ever have imagined