China, spring 1355. The Mongol Yuan dynasty is crumbling. On the Yangzi, Li Wen ? a disgraced naval commander turned smuggler ? learns that a sorcerer has slaughtered the monks of Wudang and taken his son Li Feng, fourteen years old. The ritual awaiting the boy will turn him into the living vessel of an emperor dead for eighty years. It will be completed at the next total eclipse ? in seventy-two days.
To stop it, Li Wen must gather three keys scattered across an empire in flames: the Bronze Mirror at the bottom of a drowned city, the Jade Sword at the heart of a tomb guarded by an army of terracotta warriors, and the Breath of the last true dragon. He will not travel alone. At his side stand a renegade Taoist priestess who knows the enemy from within, and a fallen Mongol warrior whose bow never misses.
Three companions. A thousand dangers. A father with nothing left to lose ? except his soul.
An epic adventure in the spirit greatest fantasies, between occult thriller and historical fresco.
