Tides of Betrayal
She burned the maps before they could take them. Ha-An — the Ghost Strategist, the phantom tactician who destroyed an entire Imperial fleet and vanished into the river — has spent....
She burned the maps before they could take them. Ha-An — the Ghost Strategist, the phantom tactician who destroyed an entire Imperial fleet and vanished into the river — has spent two years outthinking every commander the Empire has sent against her. She has never lost. She has never been found. She has never been asked what she actually wants. Until now. General Minh-Tu, the Iron Commander, is not like the others. He does not send soldiers. He sends letters. He does not threaten. He asks questions. And the question he asked — what do you want, not for your people, for yourself — is the one Ha-An has no clean answer to. Because the honest answer is the most dangerous thing she has ever held. Set against the legendary Bach Dang River, Tides of Betrayal is a war romance about two brilliant people on opposite sides of a war who cannot outthink their way out of what is happening between them. Strategy, sacrifice, and the slow pull of something neither of them has a precise word for. The war has not ended. But something has begun.