A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms, and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend—unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers. After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia’s mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away on Falada’s sturdy back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia’s mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage, and Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister. Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother, how the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.

Entre alliance et complot, la conclusion de la sérieLes Os Émeraudene se fera pas sans bruit. Ni sans honneur.Le monde se remet à peine de la guerre qui a opposé ses deux superpuissances, qu'une autre prend déjà sa place : la Guerre Lente. Cette dernière n'utilise plus de soldats, d'armes ni de bombes, mais le cinéma, la médecine et l'économie. Les alliances entre les pays changent et, face à ce nouvel équilibre mondial, les clans rivaux d'Os Émeraude doivent user de tous leurs atouts pour maintenir leur domination sur Kékon.L'île n'est plus isolée comme autrefois, et les Os Émeraude ne peuvent plus vivre selon leurs traditions ancestrales. La famille Kaul va devoir s'adapter pour survivre. Son conflit avec le clan de la Montagne est loin d'être terminé et ses ennemis guettent la moindre de ses faiblesses pour frapper.Alors qu'une nouvelle génération s'apprête à prendre la relève, les clans doivent songer à l'avenir : à quoi ressemblera le monde qu'Hilo, Shae et Anden lègueront à leurs héritiers ?Traduit de l'anglais par Gaspard Houi"Des scènes de combat épiques et un world-building éclatantdonnent vie à l'histoire poignante et mémorable d'une familleprise dans les mailles d'une guerre des gangs féroce."- Kate Elliott, autrice de la sérieLa Couronne d'Étoiles"La saga de Fonda Lee restera à jamais un pilier de la fantasy épique et du drame familial."-Library JournalL'Héritage du jade, dernier tome de la trilogieLes Os Émeraude, a reçu le prix Locus du meilleur roman de fantasy et le prix Aurora du meilleur roman.

In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years. Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich - or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals. Faced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival - and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon. Jade War is the second book of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade.