Killer Nashville Awards Top Pick (2024)
Page Turner Awards Finalist (2024)
Letter Review Shortlist (2023)
Freedom has a price. Compassion makes it higher.Fan has been a slave since the day cutthroats murdered her father and sold her to the powerful Wang family. In a household teeming with intrigue, Fan survives by staying quiet, working hard, and trusting no one. But beneath her silence lies a fierce resolve to escape.
Fan hatches a plan to rob her tormentors and make a run for freedom. To pull it off, she must rely on an unlikely band of friends: two foreign-born slaves, a kindhearted gangster, a royal spy, and a clever raven.
But just as Fan’s dream seems within reach, she befriends a newly arrived child slave. For the first time, Fan must choose: will she save herself, or will she risk everything to fight for someone else?
