In the Vanishers’ Palace

by Aliette de Bodard

*In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land...* *A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.* *A dragon, among the last of her kind, cold and aloof but desperately trying to make a difference.* When failed scholar Yên is sold to Vu Côn, one of the last dragons walking the earth, she expects to be tortured or killed for Vu Côn's amusement. But Vu Côn, it turns out, has a use for Yên: she needs a scholar to tutor her two unruly children. She takes...

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