Jade and Shadows: The Shadow Daughter Saga, (Paperback)

What if the man who raised you built your entire life around a secret-and died before telling you what it is, leaving you to discover that your quiet New York routine is the front line of a decades-old Vietnamese resistance?<p>Linh Hunh has spent twenty-seven years learning how to disappear. Raised above a Chinatown dry-goods shop by the enigmatic Nguyên V&amp;#259;n B&amp;#7843;y-known to her only as B&amp;#7843;y-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.</p><p>When B&amp;#7843;y 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. Tr&amp;#7847;n Qu&amp;#7889;c Khi, was the last physician of B&amp;#7871;n 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>Jade and Shadows</i> 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</p>

• Jade and Shadows: The Shadow Daughter Saga, (Paperback)
• Author: Mae Huynh
• ISBN: 9798184641294
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-28
• Page Count: 240