White Tiger

HER BLOODLINE IS SO POWERFUL, HER ENEMIES WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO DESTROY IT... "If you're weak, you die." Amid the wars and power struggles of Men and Demons, a Chinese Princess sacrifices herself and all she loves to save the Empire from a scheming Fox Faerie, and keep the Cosmos in balance. With the scope of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the evocativeness of Roger Zelazny's Great Book of Amber, THE PIRATE EMPRESS is an epic journey of love and betrayal, honour and hope, war and loss, and ultimate sacrifice. This is book two of the four part serialized version of THE PIRATE EMPRESS. While war rages on the Wall and pirates tyrannize the south coast Li’s young son is kidnapped. Her soldier lover defends the frontiers, her warlock grandfather fights the sorcery behind the Empire’s collapse, and neither is free to help her. She is abandoned to the mercy of the pirates where a nine-headed water god rules the seas and a cruel admiral makes her his wife. In this frightening new world Li discovers she has powers of her own. She learns how to fight and to survive—with the goal to rescue her son. Deborah Cannon won an honourable mention for her short story Twilight Glyph in the 2013 Tales of the Fantastic Short Story Contest. The anthology was released in September 2014 by Red Tuque Books.