"A fierce, heart-wrenching exploration of the value and danger of love in a world of politics and power." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Simply magnificent." -Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun "Suri’s incandescent feminist masterpiece hits like a steel fist inside a velvet glove. Harrow, author of The Once and Future Witches "An intimate, complex, magical study of empire and the people caught in its bloody teeth. "Raises the bar for what epic fantasy should be." -Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights "Suri’s writing always brings me to another world one full of wonders and terrors, where every detail feels intricately and carefully imagined." -R. Together, they will set an empire ablaze. The other a powerful priestess desperate to save her family. One is a ruthless princess seeking to steal a throne. When Malini witnesses Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household and cleaning Malini’s chambers. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way-and stop more girls from being sacrificed.Įxiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.
But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected-she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall.
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