Author
Shen Tao
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The Poet Empress
by Shen Tao
The Poet Empress is Shen Tao's dark, dazzling fantasy debut, set in the crumbling Azalea Dynasty where magic lives inside poetry and women are forbidden to read. To save her starving family, Wei Yin sells herself into a brutal royal house and discovers she can wield the one power the empire worked hardest to keep from her. For readers of She Who Became the Sun and R.F. Kuang.