From a rising-star author winner of the both the Bram Stoker and Nebula Awards a richly
inventive brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family loss oppression
and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo?s The
Empress of Salt and Fortune Neon Yang?s The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao?s The
Surviving Sky. Sometimes called Wind Walkers for their ability to command the wind unlike
their human rulers the Feng people have bark faces carved limbs arms of braided branches
and hair of needle threads. Bound by duty and tradition Liu Lufeng the eldest princess of the
Feng royalty is the next bride to the human king. The negotiation of bridewealth is the only
way to stop the expansion of the humans so that the Feng can keep their lands people and
culture intact. As the eldest Lufeng should be the next in line to lead the people of Feng
and in the past that made her sisters disposable. Thankful that her youngest sister Chuiliu
is too young for a sacrificial marriage she steps in with plans to kill the king to finally
stop the marriages. But when she starts to uncover the truth about her peoples? origins and
realizes Chuiliu will never be safe from the humans she must learn to let go of duty and
tradition choose her allies carefully and risk the unknown in order to free her family and
shape her own fate. A powerfully imaginative compelling story of a young woman seeking to
save her family and her home as well as a devastating meditation on the destruction of the
natural world for the sake of an industrial future.
