The Jade Mirror Chronicles

The Curse of the Jade Mirror is the first book in a remarkable new series by Martin Dench, an epic mythology for the modern age, set in a world where the past refuses to stay in the past.

Xiang An-ren is a successful model in Shanghai, William Reed is a bar-owner trying to escape from his past. A succession of strange events throws them together, and they find themselves fighting against an apparently unstoppable force that has lain dormant for over 2,200 years. 

Buried beneath modern Shanghai is ancient Jinglun, the capital of the Tomb Wheel Dynasty, an advanced civilisation that once dominated ancient China. Its last leader, Luo Ban is trapped in a mirror world, and only An-ren has the power to release him.

An-ren’s dreams are filled with a strange and terrifying woman, the Mirror Courtesan, a creature apparently made of glass. But when she meets the icily beautiful and enigmatic Lin Ye at an auction, she begins to wonder if they could be one and the same person.

An-ren and Reed find themselves pitched headlong into a battle against fantastical creatures, menacing humans, and an ancient civilisation that plans to use An-ren as a springboard for rebirth.

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Daughter of the Mirror is the second book in Martin Dench’s Jade Mirror Chronicles, an epic glasspunk mythology for the modern age.

Six months after Luo Ban’s defeat, life in Shanghai has finally begun to settle. An-ren and Reed now run FengXiu, the city’s newest modelling agency, and Lin Ye, the Mirror Courtesan, lies broken beneath the Jinglun River.

But the past is not done with them.

During a routine photoshoot, a courier carrying a sacred seal dies at An-ren’s feet, his body folding in on itself as if crushed by an unseen hand. That same afternoon, an anonymous letter is waiting inside her front door, enclosing a document written by her long-lost mother. It suggests she once stood at Luo Ban’s side.

And in the shadows, a Russian stranger is searching for a woman whose name has been cursed for two thousand years.

With Iron Palm Zhang and Fiona Murphy, An-ren and Reed are drawn back into the buried city of Jinglun, determined to end the Tomb Wheel’s designs for good. But what waits below will overturn everything they believe about the Tomb Wheel, about Lin Ye, and about An-ren herself.

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The Wheel of Glass is the third book in Martin Dench’s Jade Mirror Chronicles, an epic glasspunk mythology for the modern age, and the explosive conclusion to its first arc.

Lin Ye and Fiona Murphy have vanished, scattered somewhere no map can follow. Luo Ban is defeated, and the Proto-Loom in Jinglun lies in ruins.

In Chongqing, Vorin waits for Ye to return. Zhang hunts for Murphy through a fractured underworld, refusing to believe she is gone. An-ren and Reed try to pretend that life can go back to normal.

But nothing is normal anymore.

Beneath Chongqing, where every reflection is subtly wrong, a city that should never have existed is beginning to wake. The Hollow Court, ancient enemies of the Tomb Wheel, are moving in the shadows, and the wheels of the Sepulchral Mandala have begun to turn.

In a chamber built to unmake people, Ye will be offered the one thing she has wanted for two thousand years. The price is everything she is.

And when the air itself splits open, An-ren hears a voice she has not heard in twenty years.

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