Both hold the power to liberate their land.

Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten. Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within-secrets they must hide from others, and secrets that they themselves have yet to discover. He's never seen anything like it-but he knows that if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime. When Zen comes across Lan, he recognizes what she is: a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm. Now it must be hidden from the Elantians at all costs. Their magic was rumored to have been drawn from the demons they communed with. Zen is a practitioner-one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom.

Until the night a boy appears at her teahouse and saves her life. The mark is mysterious-an untranslatable Hin character-and no one but Lan can see it. Anything to understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died.

She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak'gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and her days scavenging for what she can find of the past. Now she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people's magic. I loved it!' -Shelley Parker-Chan, bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun Once, Lan had a different name. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. About the Book Lan's last remnant of her mother-and the fallen Hin dynasty of her ancestors-is a symbol seared onto her wrist, which, if the mysterious boy she encounters is to be trusted, may be the key to freeing her people by mastering the ancient, forgotten art of practitioning.īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past-and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart.

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