Ebony Gate: The Phoenix Hoard -- Julia Vee, Hardcover

Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown.

Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume.

The Butcher of Beijing now lives a quiet life in San Francisco, importing antiques. But when a shinigami, a god of death itself, calls in a family blood debt, Emiko must recover the Ebony Gate that holds back the hungry ghosts of the Yomi underworld. Or forfeit her soul as the anchor.

What's a retired assassin to do but save the City by the Bay from an army of the dead?

Author: Julia Vee, Ken Bebelle
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 07/11/2023
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.89w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9781250837431

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2023 pg. 76
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2023
Shelf Awareness 07/14/2023

About the Author

Julia Vee likes stories about monsters, money, and good food. Vee was born in Macao and grew up in Northern California, where she studied at UC Berkeley and majored in Asian Studies. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop.

Ken Bebelle turned his childhood love for reading sci-fi and fantasy into a career in prosthetics. After twenty years he came back to books, writing about plucky underdogs and ancient magical artifacts with deadly secrets. He grew up in northern California and now lives in southern California with his wife, two kids, and too many tomato plants.

Bebelle and Vee have written together since middle school.