The Poet Empress

When famine threatens everything Wei Yin holds dear, she makes a desperate gamble: becoming a concubine to the violent heir of a dying empire, hoping to save her starving family. But palace intrigue is far more treacherous than she bargained for, and she finds herself caught between warring factions in a civil war that could destroy them all. To survive the cruelty and chaos around her, Wei must discover a forbidden power—the lost magic of poetry—and become as dangerous as the world that threatens to consume her. What emerges is an intimate, breathtaking story about sacrifice, resilience, and the transformative power of words in a lush world where survival demands that you become someone entirely new.