Chronicles of the Frostblade

In the winter of the twelfth year of Jingtai, Yan Hanyi, young master of the Yongsheng Escort Agency, is caught up in a massacre on a snowy night in Qingzhou. A bloody mystery surrounding the Tongguan mutiny resurfaces with half of a bronze tiger tally. The black-iron blades of the northern wolf riders, the poisoned tassels of the Qingyun Sword Sect, and the Gu armor of the Eastern Depot's commander lay bare the festering wound of two decades of military arms embezzlement. Wherever the tiger tally goes, the borderlands bleed.

After burning the tally and cutting ties with his past, Yan Hanyi vanishes in Quanzhou. But the Ghostly Whirlpool of the maritime markets reveals the sunken