Foul Heart Huntsman
Spies and rebels operate in 1930s Shanghai, where history and fantasy collide in a city of danger and intrigue. A huntsman with a scarred heart takes on a mission that forces him to confront his past. Magic and politics intertwine in a game where loyalty costs everything.
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Shanghai, 1932. The noose tightens as the Japanese military encroaches on China's borders. Rosalind Lang, the infamous Lady Fortune, a spy as lethal as she is ruthless , has been exposed. With media camped outside her apartment and her partner Orion's memories of her wiped clean, she's forced into hiding to plot her next move. What unfolds is a race against time to save both her country and the man she loves, all while the city crumbles around them.
Gong's prose is sharp and atmospheric, 1930s Shanghai feels dangerous and real. Rosalind is one of the best spies in YA fantasy: capable, compromised, human. The romance with Orion simmers beneath geopolitical intrigue without overshadowing it. If you loved Our Violent Ends for its historical backdrop and political stakes, this sequel deepens both.
Violence (spy craft, assassination, warfare), morally gray characters making dark choices, character injury, blood, political/historical context of Japanese invasion of China.
Rosalind sets herself up as bait, claiming to hold the last vial of Lady Hong's supersoldier serum, to lure out Lady Hong and get Orion back. His conditioning is eventually broken with help from Lourens, tracked down by Benedikt and Marshall, and his memories return. Along the way Rosalind learns Juliette and Roma survived and are living quietly in Zhouzhuang. The duology closes with a happy epilogue for Rosalind and Orion, hard won and fully earned.
Readers of These Violent Delights duology who want to stay in Gong's world, this is book 2 of Foul Lady Fortune (separate duology, same universe). Not for readers who need cozy romance; Rosalind operates in grays and moral complexity. Comp: espionage thriller + historical fantasy. Contains romance but it's not the center.
Book 2 and the conclusion of the Foul Lady Fortune duology, set in the same universe as These Violent Delights a few years on. Read Foul Lady Fortune first. This one wraps the story completely, there is no book 3.
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