Snow Geese Fill the Bow and Blade

Winter of the fourteenth year of Tianbao, Fanyang City of the Great Tang.

The expeditionary army, the old fubing militia, the Five Surnames and Seven Great Houses, and the smoke of war in the north: all forces were stirring beneath the surface, watching every move made by An Lushan, military governor of the three towns.

A man who had lost all hope in life, a young woman shouldering the immense responsibilities of her family, and a piece of news.

From Fanyang to Chang'an, life and death lay amid a world of shifting, treacherous currents.