Black Tortoise

The Pirate Empress #1

by Deborah Cannon

WAR IS COMING.
The Great Wall of China is armed to keep invaders out and its people safe, but is it enough? And can a princess save the day when all hell breaks loose?

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.

Genres: Fantasy

213 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 22, 2014

About the author

Deborah Cannon was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of numerous short stories and six novels. Her short story Twilight Glyph won an Honourable Mention in the 2013 Canadian Tales of the Fantastic Short Story Contest. She has contributed articles on writing to the Canadian Writer's Guide and the professional writer's web sites, absolutewrite.com and suite101.com. She is author of the archaeological manual, Marine Fish Osteology: A Manual for Archaeologists. Most recently, her anthropological thriller The Raven's Pool was cited in a scholarly study, Archaeology is a Brand! The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture (Holtorf 2007) alongside treasure hunters Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. Her second novel, White Raven was a 2007 Adult Summer Reading Club pick at the Hamilton Public Library. The series continues with Ravenstone and Raven's Blood. Elizabeth Latimer: Pirate Hunter marks the beginning of a new series for teens or anyone who can imagine themselves encountering a pirate.

See her website at:
http://deborahlcannon.wix.com/the-rav...