Julie C. Dao

"Popular athlete Clip is confident he'll take the prize, if it weren't for that Test of Humility. Meanwhile, his little sister, Sadie, finds herself being pulled into the immersive world of Pantaera and rising to meet the trails thrown her way, despite claiming not to care about the game. And her best friend. Jeremy, a proud nerd and usually the last to be picked in gym class, wants more than anything to save the world of the game he loves, no matter...

"Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high? Because...

Bao, a poor physician's apprentice, and Lan, the wealthy nobleman's daughter he loves, work together to break a curse and save the kingdom of Feng Lu. After cruelly rejecting Bao, the poor physician's apprentice who loves her, Lan, a wealthy nobleman's daughter, regrets her actions. When she finds Bao's prized flute floating in his boat near her house, she takes it into her care, not knowing that his soul has been trapped inside it by an evil witch,...