The Pirate Empress: Black Tortoise: A Serial Novel, Book1

HER BLOODLINE IS SO POWERFUL, HER ENEMIES WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO DESTROY IT... "If you're weak, you die."

Amid the wars and power struggles of Men and Demons, a Chinese Princess sacrifices herself and all she loves to save the Empire from a scheming Fox Faerie, and keep the Cosmos in balance. With the scope of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," and the evocativeness of Roger Zelazny's "Great Book of Amber," THE PIRATE EMPRESS is an epic saga of love and betrayal, honour and hope, war and loss, and ultimate sacrifice.

This introductory ebook version is a four part serial. In book one, Lotus Lily (aka Li) lives in the Imperial palace as a concubine-in-training, unbeknown to her emperor father who had ordered her death for being a girl when an infant. Set against the backdrop of war on the Dragon Wall and the pirate tyranny on the south coast, Li must run for her life, and is hunted by the emperor’s armies, desert warlords, and the Fox Faerie when a prophecy states that her future son will be the next Son of Heaven.

Deborah Cannon won an honourable mention for her short story Twilight Glyph in the 2013 Tales of the Fantastic Short Story Contest. The anthology was released in September 2014 by Red Tuque Books.