

The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories.

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule.

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. "A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."-Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister "Magnificent in every way."-Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree
