Speaking Bones

The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty, which sees twoempires face a whirlwind that threatens to utterly consume them. Ukyu-Gondé. Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess Théra is pursued across a continentvaster than she could ever have imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World's EdgeMountains, into the barrows and subterranean halls of the City of Ghosts, across the ice. oes of the far north. She breached the Wall of Storms intent on taking war to the Lyucuhomelands, but how do you conquer the unconquerable. Dara. Empress Jia, Prince Phyro and Pékyu Tanvanaki. nd themselves bound to paths theynever would have chosen. Amid atrocity and subterfuge, they will discover that theCourage of Brutes is no substitute for the Grace of Kings, and that little separates theGrace of Kings from the Madness of Tyrants. On both sides of the Wall of Storms, defeat's bitter tears mix with the fruits ofknowledge new and ancient as two empires bound by blood and bone, by writ and iron,by time and custom, face a whirlwind that threatens to utterly consume them. The teeth, as they say, are on the board.