With fresh, lyrical prose and a true storyteller's flair, in her novel Moon in the Palace, Weina Dai Randel brings 7th century China to vibrant life. Through the eyes of Mei, a name meaning simply Sister, given to the middle daughter of the household of her birth, we are submerged into intrigue of the Imperial court, where wives and concubines fight for positions of power beside the emperor, and where men fight to take the emperor's throne. A story of courage and daring, in Moon in the Palace, a girl without a name takes her destiny into her own hands. A shining jewel of a novel. - Christy English, author of The Queen's Pawn and To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitane