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After bathing in a tub filled with orchid blossoms, she sat
down at the vanity. As she gripped the comb and held it by her head, she felt
its teeth scratch her scalp, and she realized that her hand was trembling. Even
as her body cooled and dried, that place below felt like a cauldron boiling
over.
The bedroom door creaked open then and Fei Sei gasped aloud.
"Who is there?!" she shrieked, only to turn and find a Silongese
maidservant staring back at her in terror. "I have all I need, thank
you," Fei Sei muttered, exhaling a long sigh of relief. The girl vanished.
Fei Sei turned back to the vanity mirror, making sure the water-colored
dressing robe was closed around her body. She silently thanked the gods that
her thick black hair had begun to grow back. It fell close enough to her chin
that she no longer resembled a boy. Swollen nipples poking the surface of her
weightless linen robe left no doubt whatsoever that she was female.
“I prepared the room for you myself,” a deep, male voice
from somewhere behind her began to speak. She dropped the bottle of perfume
from her hands. It shattered on the floor. “I chose the color of the shallow
sea so that your surroundings here may comfort you.”
Fei Sei remained seated at the vanity with her back to the
door. She could not summon the courage to turn around. In the vanity mirror,
she could see the reflection of his bare arm, so thick with muscle and tanned
to the color of red clay. A bit of his sash showed, too: a sleeveless tunic,
black and gold.
BLURB:
IMPERIA is
a tale of revenge. It is a resurrection of Asian myth. It is fantasy's untold
story.
Thirty years is a long time to hold a grudge. The Red Empress has endured every single day of the past three decades living among enemies. A captive empress, she bides her time, her mind's machinations plotting a future bathed in blood. And then the future becomes the present. Across the Empire of Heaven, the winds blow calmly no more.
Thirty years is a long time to hold a grudge. The Red Empress has endured every single day of the past three decades living among enemies. A captive empress, she bides her time, her mind's machinations plotting a future bathed in blood. And then the future becomes the present. Across the Empire of Heaven, the winds blow calmly no more.
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Originally
from Pensacola, Florida, Jason Hatcher attended the International Baccalaureate
senior high school program, then went on to study Japanese and English
literature at the University of Florida. He attended law school in Boston, and
worked as an attorney in New York City for eight years. A lifelong lover of
Asia, he spent much of his childhood in Japan. He speaks, reads, and writes
Japanese, and has traveled extensively throughout that part of the world.
Today, he lives in Westchester County, New York, with his husband, mother, and
twin sons.
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