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Dominion

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A page turner: tender yet tense, loving yet steamy, dangerous yet darkly humorous. ‘A page turner: tender yet tense, loving yet steamy, dangerous yet darkly humorous. Dominion draws gorgeously on Chinese mythology to create something entirely new.’ - Brigitte Knightley ‘A brilliant, captivating, deeply romantic fantasy debut! Dominion is an... Read More
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The first book in the heart-racing and transportive fantasy romance trilogy that is Dire Bound and Fourth Wing by way of Chinese mythology with majestic tygers set in a perilous world where a young woman with no memory and little magic may hold the key to uniting the Dominions and saving the mortal realm.

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A page turner: tender yet tense, loving yet steamy, dangerous yet darkly humorous.

‘A page turner: tender yet tense, loving yet steamy, dangerous yet darkly humorous. Dominion draws gorgeously on Chinese mythology to create something entirely new.’ - Brigitte Knightley

‘A brilliant, captivating, deeply romantic fantasy debut! Dominion is an addictive read, and it’s going to dazzle romantasy readers!’ - Ali Hazelwood

A woman with no past. A warrior with no future. Their love could save the world-or burn it down.

In a world divided into four rival Dominions, power is everything-and Rubi Morningtail has almost none. Three years after the Annihilation destroyed her homeland and shattered her memories, she lives as an Azure refugee in the Dominion of the Silver Tyger, scraping by as a ribbon dancer and hiding her little bit of singing magic. When she wounds a massive battle-tyger on her doorstep, she draws the notice of Blake Axefire- supreme metal mage, leader of the royal tyger warriors, and the last man an Azure should trust. His sentence? Cast her into the Bonding, a brutal trial where tygers choose their riders and slaughter the rest. Surviving is unthinkable.

But survive she does. Now she’s stuck on Blake’s elite team racing to reseal the Anchors to the demon realm. With rebels striking, demons rising, and the Dominions at each other’s throats, Rubi must unlock the truth of her magic and her past…while resisting her dangerous attraction to the ruthless warrior who could be her redemption-or her ruin.

‘A lyrical fantasy where mythology and a hidden past intertwine with dangerous attraction.’ - Danielle L. Jensen

‘Scintillating romantasy from literary superstar.’ - Thea Guanzon

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408751077

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Renegade Books

Illustration: N/A

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 448

About the Author

Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Leftover Woman, Searching for Sylvie Lee, Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Her books have been chosen by Read with Jenna, CBS New York, Book of the Month, LibraryReads, Indie Next, Goodreads Choice Awards, Belletrist, Discover Great New Writers, and as a Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Most of her work is in development for film and television.

She has been chosen for numerous honors including the American Library Association Alex Award, the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award, an Orange New Writers title and the Sunday Times Short Story Award international shortlist. She was one of twelve contemporary authors asked by the Agatha Christie estate to write an original, authorized Miss Marple story for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries.

She immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in fiction at Columbia University, working as a professional ballroom dancer in between degrees.

She reviews for the New York Times Book Review and has served as fiction judge for International Thriller Writers, Tucson Festival of Books, Ragdale, and San Miguel Writers Conference. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and is taught in schools across the world. She lives in the New York area.

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