Where Rivers Made the Gods

THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 27 JULY 2027.

Return to a city of warring gangs, blazing fire, and fading gods in the sequel to Wen-yi Lee's acclaimed adult fantasy debut - a fierce historical fantasy that reads like Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R. F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy.

Death cannot stop love - or change.

Singapore, 1975: A city in remaking. Rivers scourged. Cemeteries dug up. Islands moving between ships from a fallen Saigon. Nothing stops progress-except the vessel of a fire goddess, who wants to bring back the dead.

Iris Yen Wan, haunted and homeless, uses her ghosts to locate corpses for a gravedigger. Then she stumbles upon an apartment where a girl with butterfly tattoos has been preserved for two years. When Iris goes near, the corpse's eyes open. Now Adeline Siow, the madly grieving Madam Butterfly, is offering Iris a room, hoping that her murdered lover will wake again.

But Iris's new home comes with strange and bloody strings. Shapeshifters and girls with fire follow Iris in the streets. A death god's resentful son visits every night. In the industrial heart of the city, a crucible burns where godless men kill to touch magic once more.

And within the haunted apartment, a dangerous attraction stirs amidst the perpetually burning candles. With it grows the fear that Ang Tian might never truly come back.

Or worse, that she might - and bring something inhuman along with her.