An incredible addition to the classic Chinese court intrigue genre.
Can Mingshin avert the catastrophe of her past by once again learning to trust...and maybe even love? Master storyteller Kate Chenli introduces a singular YA heroine in this vividly rendered and utterly original new fantasy series..
But in the viper\'s nest of the royal court, she and Jieh prove a phenomenal team.
Mingshin knows better than anyone not to give her Heart to a prince.
She finds herself allying with Jieh, another contender for the throne.
But the timeline in this life has changed: a dignitary gifted with dark magic is threatening her kingdom\'s peace, and Ren\'s thirst for power runs deeper than Mingshin could have imagined.
Mingshin wakes up two years earlier, her prayer granted, and swears two things: Ren will never become king, and she will never fall in love again.
As she\'s dying, Mingshin makes a desperate plea to the gods to turn back time and give her a chance to make things right.
But she doesn\'t see Ren\'s betrayal coming, not until she\'s lying in a pool of her own blood on the palace steps.
Mingshin outsmarted three princes to help the man she loved become king. --Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights What if you could avenge your own murder? A brilliant young woman gets a second chance at life in this debut YA tale of vengeance, court intrigue, and romance, inspired by classic Chinese tropes.
A Bright Heart is smart, subversive, and certainly swoony.
An incredible addition to the classic Chinese court intrigue genre
