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“A crushing reincarnation fantasy that will split you open and leave your heart in the wind. Well drawn characters, great worldbuilding, well written. A truly beautiful story! Warning: this is sold as 'Romantasy' but most definitely is not, and there is no HEA, so revise expectations.”
— Candice • Tubby & Coo's Book Shop
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“A love letter to queer Asian men and the legend of the cut-sleeve Chinese emperor. A steamy examination of hedonism and the cost of pleasure and codependency. ”
— Shelby • The Novel Neighbor
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“The Emperor and the Endless Palace is a hard novel to sum up, but let me try: an erotic love story, three eras, loyalty, betrayal, intrigue, mythology. The story is gloriously addictive and will keep you turning page after page!”
— Kathy Baum • Tattered Cover
"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”
In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue.
In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead.
And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they’ve met before.
Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime. Within the treacherous walls of an ancient palace and the boundless forests of the Asian wilderness to the heart-pounding cement floors of underground rave scenes, our lovers are inexplicably drawn to each other, constantly tested by the worlds around them.
As their many lives intertwine, they begin to realize the power of their undying love—a power that transcends time itself…but one that might consume them both.
An unpredictable roller coaster of a debut novel, The Emperor and the Endless Palace is a genre-bending spicy romantasy that challenges everything we think we know about true love.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The Emperor and the Endless Palace is a heart-pounding romantasy, full of shocking twists, morally shifty characters, and erotic thrills. When it comes to the romance within this novel, you can expect equal parts mess and swoon, but its central thread is an epic tale of true love against all the odds.
Justinian Huang's debut novel,THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE, was hailed by Booklist as ""a sweepingtriumph,"" and ""page-turning and deeply thoughtful,"" in a starredreview by Publishers Weekly. In 2025, it was named a Stonewall Honor Book inLiterature by the American Library Association. Born in California toimmigrants, Justinian spends his time between Los Angeles and Bangkok, with hisrescue dog Swagger in tow. LUCKY SEED is his second novel, with more thrillingand twisty stories to come.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Justinian Huang
Narrators:
Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao & Telly Leung
ISBN:
9781488229923
Length:
9 hours 52 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Harlequin Audio
Publication date:
March 26, 2024
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#538 Overall
Genre rank:
#32 in LGBTQIA+ Fiction