num_pages: 103
description:  Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The Goblin Emperor meets Howls Moving Castle in a pre-colonial Vietnamese-esque world.Fire burns bright and has a long memory.Quiet thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now shes returned to her mothers imperial court haunted not only by memories of her first romance but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephterias royal palace.Thanhs new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanhs home. Eldris wont take no for an answer on either front. But the fire that burned down one palace is tempting Thanh with the possibility of making her own dangerous decisions.Can Thanh find the freedom to shape her countrys fateand her own?
language: English
title: Fireheart Tiger
publisher: Tordotcom