The Empire's Bladesmen: Forbidden Relics (War of the Dragon Throne Book 1)

**MEDIEVAL CHINA AND EAST ASIA HISTORICAL FANTASY** THE EMPEROR'S ELITE GUARDSMEN AND THE GREATEST ARMY OF THE 15TH CENTURY MOBILIZE AGAINST A POWERFUL CRIME SYNDICATE... ONLY TO BECOME TRAPPED BY HORDES OF FEROCIOUS MAN-EATING MONSTERS. Shao Lian, a battle-hardened and decorated veteran of the imperial army, has become a captain in the emperor’s elite assassin and bodyguard unit. Under orders from the emperor, Captain Shao Lian embarks on the most harrowing campaign of his career within the empire’s premier intelligence agency. Lian leads imperial forces against the largest crime syndicate in the empire only to find himself and his squad in a fight for survival against hordes of monstrous man-eaters. The vicious beasts, commanded by a primordial being capable of immense strength, pins Lian against a new kind of enemy that, for the first time, truly horrifies him. Meanwhile, a Venetian scholar, named Lilianna, uncovers a vast conspiracy from prehistory that now threatens the entire fifteenth century world. Soon, earth’s empires must resort to military power to face these existential threats.