Jade City

Jade City by Fonda Lee is the first novel in the Green Bone Saga, published by Orbit in 2017. It is a fantasy family saga set on the fictional island of Kekon, where jade is the most valuable resource of all. For centuries it has been mined, traded, stolen and killed for, and warriors known as Green Bones use it to enhance their supernatural abilities and to defend the island against foreign invaders.

With the war of independence over, a new generation of the Kaul family competes for control of Kekon's busy capital city. Their priorities are protecting their own people, securing the jade market and defending the districts under their control, while old traditions lose ground in a rapidly modernising nation.

When a powerful new drug appears that allows anyone, including foreigners, to wield jade, long-standing tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family turns into open violence. The outcome of this clan war will decide the fate of every Green Bone, from clan leaders to the lowest street runners, and of Kekon itself. The novel opens a story of family, honour and the laws of jade and blood.