The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

Zen Cho

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A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! A Lambda Literary Award Finalist. A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020. Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far.

“Fantastic, defiant, utterly brilliant.” —Ken Liu.

Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there.

Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.

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