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Song of Silver, Flame Like Night


A Young Adult Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the Song of the Last Kingdom Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Romantic Fantasy,
  • Rebellion,
  • Colonialism,
  • Inspired by Chinese Mythology and Folklore,
  • Hidden Powers
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  • Fantasy rooted in ancient Chinese mythology and folklore
  • Secret societies plotting revolution against colonizers
  • Magical marks with hidden meanings and dangerous power
Publisher Description

Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers. Her days are consumed by the search for knowledge about the strange mark—an untranslatable Hin character—burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died.

Zen is a practitioner—one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. He’s never seen anything like Lan’s mark, 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.

Yet, both Lan and Zen are hiding secrets—secrets that are buried deep within them. Secrets that even they have still to unearth. Both hold the power to liberate their land, if they don't destroy it first.

Now the battle for the Last Kingdom begins.

Inspired by ancient Chinese mythology and folklore, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night transports readers to a lush fantasy world filled with high-stakes adventure, glittering magic, and against-all-odds romance from beginning to end.

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