Jade City
World Fantasy Award nominee 2018, Nebula Award nominee 2017.
JADE CITY is a gripping, The Godfather-style saga with magic and kungfu, set in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.
TWO RUTHLESS FAMILIES, ONE SOURCE OF POWER: JADE.
Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. Magical Kekonese jade has long been mined, traded, stolen and killed for. For centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family used it to enhance their abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion.
Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection. Honor has little place in this rapidly changing nation.
When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone-even foreigners-wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones-from their grandest patriarch to even the lowliest motorcycle runner on the streets-and of Kekon itself.
JADE CITY begins an epic tale of family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade.
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Fonda Lee
In modern fantasy, few voices have reshaped the genre’s landscape quite like Fonda Lee. Her worlds pulse with grit and elegance, pulling readers into stories where family loyalty clashes with power, where battles carry philosophical weight, and where magic feels inseparable from lived tradition. It is this ability to blend cinematic action with emotional depth that has made her one of the most compelling writers in speculative fiction today.
Lee’s path to storytelling wasn’t a straight one. Born in Calgary and educated at Stanford, she spent years navigating the corporate world before trading business strategies for the art of building entire fictional societies. Her martial arts training, as she holds black belts in both kung fu and karate, has shaped her writing as much as her love of crime dramas and wuxia cinema, lending her fight scenes a visceral realism and her characters a profound sense of discipline and purpose.
The Green Bone Saga
The Green Bone Saga consists of three books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
