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Jade and Shadows: The Shadow Daughter Saga
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 28 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Linh Hunh has spent twenty-seven years learning how to disappear. Raised above a Chinatown dry-goods shop by the enigmatic Nguyên Văn Bảy-known to her only as Bảy-she has been trained in a quiet, precise way of seeing the world: reading rooms, redirecting danger, and leaving no trace. Her life is a small radius of invisible interventions and morning drills at the Wing Chun wooden dummy, useful but contained.
When Bảy dies at 107, the careful architecture of Linh's existence shifts. A hidden tin box, a letter written for the one who comes after, and a photograph from a jungle clearing in 1944 reveal a legacy far larger than the narrow apartment she has called home. Linh discovers that her grandfather, Dr. Trần Quốc Khi, was the last physician of Bến Tre-a man who helped build something designed to outlast every regime and every war: a Vietnamese underground society rooted in the principles of bamboo-bend, never break.
As strangers begin watching her streets and a nephew arrives, claiming the inheritance she has unknowingly been carrying, Linh is pushed from the alleys of New York to the bamboo groves of southern Vietnam, and toward a sister she has never met who holds the other half of her broken jade pendant. To survive, she must decide whether to remain invisible-or step into the center of the very history that has been protecting her.
Jade and Shadows is a literary thriller about diaspora, resistance, and the quiet disciplines that make endurance possible, perfect for readers who love thoughtful, character-driven suspense with deep historical roots.Jade_and_Shadows_Final-Manuscript.pdf
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