Dragon in chains

From award-winning author Daniel Fox comes a ravishingly written epic of revolution and romance set in a world where magic is found in stone and in water, in dragons and in men--and in the chains that bind them.Deposed by a vicious usurper, a young emperor flees with his court to the small island of Taishu. There, with a dwindling army, a manipulative mother, and a resentful population--and his only friend a local fishergirl he takes as a concubine--he prepares for his last stand.In the mountains of Taishu, a young miner finds a huge piece of jade, the potent mineral whose ingestion can gift…