She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

A stolen destiny rises against an empire

Very Good Condition – minor cover and edge wear.

In famine-stricken fourteenth-century China, a girl is told her fate is nothing while her brother, Zhu Chongba, is promised greatness. When bandits leave them orphaned and her brother dies, she takes his name and enters a monastery, determined to escape the death assigned to her. Years later, the monastery is destroyed amid rebellion against the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty, and Zhu joins the Red Turban forces with an unyielding conviction that she can seize the greatness once foretold for someone else. Her ambition brings military triumph, political danger and a powerful rival who understands the cost of denying one’s true self. Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise of the Ming dynasty in an epic novel of war, gender, desire and destiny, following a fiercely intelligent protagonist prepared to reshape history in order to survive.