Jade Shards

The snowballing sequence of historic events was a disruption to Ure’s entire life, an inversion of everything she’d ever known. Ure had trained all her life in secret camps, carrying her jade under her clothes like a thief, always fearing for her life and the lives of her relatives. Ure had told her son the truth; she had not taken off her jade, not even when it had been killing her. In truth, Sterns had been updating a list of all the Green Bone clan leaders who comprised the board of the Kekon Jade Alliance, the national cartel that regulated the country’s production and distribution of jade.