title: Empress: A Novel
author: Shan Sa
description: From the internationally best-selling author of <i>The Girl Who Played Go </i>(2003) comes another brilliant historical novel set in China. Reaching back in time to the seventh century, Shan re-creates a China ruled by the powerful Tang dynasty. Chosen to become one of the emperor's royal concubines, a young girl known as Heavenlight is thrust into the exotic world of the Forbidden City, where she must learn to navigate politics, court intrigue, and petty jealousies. One among 10,000 girls and women, she eventually distinguishes herself from the others by relying on her intelligence, wit, and fierce determination. Chosen by the heir to the throne to be his first wife, she ascends to the throne after her husband's death, becoming the first empress of China. Based on the controversial reign of Empress Wu, this fictional biography illuminates the life and times of one of the ancient world's most powerful, capable, and overlooked women. <i>Brad Hooper</i><br><i>Copyright &#169; American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: > **REQUIEM OF THE SOUL**
  
  > A SOVEREIGN SONS NOVEL
  
  > A. ZAVARELLI
  
  > NATASHA KNIGHT
  
  Copyright © 2021 by A. Zavarelli & Natasha Knight
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  > > **ABOUT THIS BOOK**
  
  I was born with noble blood in my veins.
  
  Heir to a powerful dynasty.
  
  Wealth. Power. Aristocracy.
  
  Temptations too dangerous to resist.
  
  Until someone tried to steal it all.
  
  Scarred and broken, I emerged from the flames.
  
  Now I’ve returned to take what’s mine.
  
   _Revenge._
  
  The first item on my agenda?
  
  Make Ivy Moreno my wife.
  
  Second?
  
  Bend her until she breaks.
  
   _Requiem of the Soul is Book 1 of The Society Trilogy._
  
  >  **CONTENTS**
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter