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The mythic beasts and glorious legends of feudal China illuminate a world at war in this, the conclusion to Daniel Foxs critically acclaimed series. Whatever they thought, this was always where they were going: to the belly of the dragon, or the belly of the sea. More by chance than good judgment, the young emperor has won his first battle. The rebels have retreated from the coastal city of Santungbut theyll be back. Distracted by his pregnant concubine, the emperor sends a distrusted aide, Ping Wen, to govern Santung in his place. There, the treacherous general will discover the healer Tien, who is obsessed with a library of sacred mage texts and the secrets concealed withinsecrets upon which, Ping Wen quickly realizes, the fate of the whole war may turn. As all sides of this seething conflict prepare for more butchery, a miner of magical jade, himself invulnerable, desperately tries to save his beautiful and yet brutally scarred clan cousin; a priestess loses her children, who are taken as pawns in a contest beyond her comprehension; and a fierce and powerful woman commits an act of violence that will entwine her, body and soul, with the spirit of jade itself. Amid a horde of soldiers, torturers, and runaways, these people will test both their human and mystical powers against a violent world. But one force trumps all: the huge, hungry, wrathful dragon. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Praise for MOSHUI THE BOOKS OF STONE AND WATER BY D ANIEL F OX Dragon - photo 1
Praise for
MOSHUI: THE BOOKS OF
STONE AND WATER

BY D ANIEL F OX

Dragon in Chains

Fox captures the foggy mysteries of feudal China in exquisite style with this rich fantasy series opener. Foxs concisely elegant style mirrors the light brush strokes and deep colors of ancient Chinese paintings, finely balancing detail, emotion and action. Where many Western authors try and fail to capture the nuances of Chinese culture and mythology, this melodious tale quietly succeeds.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Daniel Fox tackles his material (loosely based on the myths and history of Old China) with a combination of insight, innovation, and sheer command of language that transforms it. Now Im waiting for the next book, with all the impatience of a dedicated fan!

Locus

Dragon in Chains is a compelling blend of high-stakes action, well-drawn characters who I really cared about, and a gorgeously painted landscape. This is the kind of fantasy I love to read.

K ATE E LLIOTT

Intense passions and wild imagination a mythic China intimately imagined.

A. A. A TTANASIO

A rising star With talent like Foxs, the future of fantasy is in good hands.

T ANITH L EE

Fox masterfully weaves multiple story strands into a smooth braid. A rousing fantasy adventure.

BookLoons

Daniel Foxs poetic prose makes even the mundane seem marvelous. Definitely a noveland a seriesthat should be on every fantasy readers radar.

Fantasy Book Critic

Fox is a lyrical writer whose greatest strength is evoking the mood and feel of a placeTaishu feels as solid and real as the chains that restrain the titular dragon.

RT Book Reviews

Jade Mans Skin

Brutal, brilliant, complex, and startlingly clear all at once, this series does a magnificent job of taking the reader into a culture, a time, a place that most of us have never considered.

J AY L AKE , author of Pinion

[Builds] on the brilliantly subtle groundwork laid in 2009s Dragon in Chains Readers who enjoyed Foxs delicate descriptions and leisurely prose will be thrilled to find more of the same, along with greater depth of story as the numerous characters are pulled together by schemes and destiny.

Publishers Weekly

Foxs love of all things Chinese shines through this sequel to Dragon in Chains, which should appeal to fans of Asian-themed fantasy such as Lian Hearns Across the Nightingale Floor and Barry Hugharts Bridge of Birds.

Library Journal

This is both a stand-alone story and an excellent continuation of Foxs previous novel. Set in a richly detailed, feudal, Asian-style empire, the plot revolves around rebellion, betrayal and bonds. All told, it is a tale thats hard to put down until the last line.

RT Book Reviews

B Y D ANIEL F OX

Dragon in Chains
Jade Mans Skin
Hidden Cities

Moshui

T HE B OOKS OF S TONE AND W ATER

Hidden Cities is a work of fiction Names characters places and incidents - photo 2

Hidden Cities is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original

Copyright 2011 by Daniel Fox

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

D EL R EY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon
is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fox, Daniel.
Hidden cities / Daniel Fox.
p. cm. (Moshui: the books of stone and water ; bk. 3)
eISBN: 978-0-345-52433-1
1. DragonsFiction. 2. MagicFiction. I. Title.
PR6106.O96H53 2011
823.92dc22
2010042070

www.delreybooks.com

Cover design: David Stevenson
Cover illustration: Robert Hunt

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A book without a dedication
is like a kiss without salt.
Or something
.

Nuff said.

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Picture 4id he think she was angry, before?

Well, yes. He did think it, and he was not wrong. He had felt the slow stew of her anger, fed over centuries in chains below the sea; he had seen the sudden flare of it when she was suddenly free, when she destroyed a whole fleet of men and ships for their impertinence, abroad upon her waters; he had endured the storm of it when she found herself not so free after all, when she raged through the typhoon.

He had faced her in her fury more than once, eye to eye and far too close.

He still thought he had never seen her quite this angry, and entirely at him.

L ITTLE THING , you promised.

There were proverbs Han knew, teaching people how very foolish it was to make promises to a dragon.

I know I did. She loured above him, where he stood too close. I did promise, and I am sorry. I had not meant for this to happen.

She knew that, she was in his head.

Because she was in his head, she must know this too: that there were just two things he would not willingly relinquish, out of all the world. Despite all terror, and all betrayal. Tien was one of them, and actually this was the other: this constant grinding oppression of scale, this teetering always on the edge of a catastrophic fall. This revealed savagery, this terrible landscape, eternal wrath, this dragon.

He had tried to free her once, and failed. Her chainsor were they his chains?were more than simple iron, and not so easily cut. He had promised it again, and meant it truly. And had betrayed her anyway, and now he could not free her anywhere this side of death. She was written on his skin, in some spell-crafted liquor more potent than mere ink. And that was Tiens doing altogether, and what he knew the dragon knew, and

I will eat her. If I cannot eat you, little thing. Which they had absolutely established by now: not eat, not drown, not crush or starve or dement him into suicide, no. I will eat your vicious girl instead.

No, he said. You will not.

You cannot always keep her close. You cannot always watch her.

Right now he did not want her close. But, I dont need to, he said. The dragon was in his head, overwhelming; he was in hers, mortal and tiny and insignificant. She was written on his skin, and she could not close him out. If you go near Tien, I will know. I will not let you harm her.

Betrayal made no difference, apparently. He was no more free than the dragon; he could still not relinquish Tien.

He couldnt even match the dragons anger. Tien understood about sacrifice, where he kicked like a rabbit in a snare. She would have sacrificed herself without a thought. Seizing an opportunity, she had sacrificed Han instead.

He knew. He had been there, helpless under her hands.

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