Lee Evie

BOOK ONE OF THE JOSEON DETECTIVE SERIESA missing woman. A frozen body.A damo slave girl, determined to solve the mystery.Joseon Dynasty, Korea, 1590.At the foot of a jagged mountain range, an isolated village lies in muddy snow and a young noblewoman vanishes from her bed in the dead of night. Rumours of a fearsome ghost with no face echo in her wake. Dan Ji arrives into the long winding valley with her own ghosts, determined to prove her worth as an investigator and solve the mystery. She is a damo, a tea servant of the police force, tasked with cooking and cleaning for her superiors and sometimes, with performing undercover police work.With only the officer in charge on her side - a hard young man with a bloody past and secrets of his own ¬- Dan Ji must convince the local Magistrate and his provincial policemen to trust her judgement. Yet with mistrust brewing, the investigation slowly grinds to a halt. Until a frozen body is unearthed from the deep snows of the mountain range.As a damo of Joseon's police force, it is not within Dan Ji's nature to leave a mystery unsolved.The threads run far and wide.A dark historical mystery set in old Korea.

A Dark Detective Story of Old Korea

A Song for Lonely Wolves

In the ancient Korean city of Hanyang, a gisaeng slave girl is forced to turn spy for a shadowy organisation with dangerous intentions. In return she wants only one thing. Yet it is not her freedom Seorin so desperately desires, it is something far more precious ... and she will face anything, even death, to gain it.

A Dark and Romantic Adventure in Old Korea

Promise Season

She has no future. He has no past. Who will yield first?JOSEON DYNASTY, KOREA. During the long midwinter, snow drifts heavy through the stark streets of sprawling Hanyang. Within the stifling walls of the Pavilion, a gisaeng slave girl is driven to the edge of her endurance.Chungjo is ambitious. Beautiful. Cruel. A slave girl who submits to no-one and destroys all who stand in her way. Yet a mysterious stranger thwarts her plans at every turn, craftier than she could anticipate, a young man who is her match.Soon a dance begins. Who will discover the truth first? Who will destroy the other?A dark romantic historical adventure in old Korea.

A Dark Romantic Story of Old Korea

Promise Thief

An Ode to Hungry Ghosts

JOSEON KOREA.Ba-woo is a young man with nothing. No hopes, no dreams. No plans for the future. He's too busy scraping a living and taking care of what remains of his family. Times are hard, but Ba-woo is hard too. He will survive. He doesn't need anything else.Until he sees Ga-ryung.For the first time, Ba-woo begins to want more.A love story set among the rolling fields and lush mountains of rural Joseon Korea.

An Illustrated Promise Series Novella

Barley Fields

A woman with one secret. A man with many. A journey into the wild. JOSEON KOREA Rain hisses across the rooftops of the Pavilion, Hanyang's greatest entertainment house. Within its stifling walls, a lonely gisaeng slave girl strives to hold together the scattering pieces of her life and protect a dangerous secret. When a mysterious lord buys her as his unwilling concubine, Jan-sil must decide if she has the courage to deceive him. Her very survival hangs in the balance. Yet as they journey together through a perilous world of rain and mist, Jan-sil's loyalties begin to waver. To protect her secret, she turns to a vicious bodyguard, who might be her last chance at freedom. A dark, romantic story of old Korea.

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