Rent Everything Under the Heavens: Book I of Silk and Song

Synopsis

Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, by the age of sixteen Wu Johanna's world reaches from Japan in the east to Tajikistan in the west. It's a world seen from camelback, through tent flaps, and in the cool, shaded caravanserai where travelers and traders gather along the Silk Road. A world of spice merchants and pearl divers, bandits and troubadours, servants and sheikhs, with a network of contacts that stretches out to the shores of the Mediterranean. She is, after all, the granddaughter of Marco Polo.

In the wake of her father's death, however, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little. Amid the shifting dynastic loyalties and political maneuverings of the Khan's disintegrating court, she must leave almost everyone and everything she knows behind. If she's to find a future for herself, it will mean crossing the vast expanse of Asia to the very edge of the known world.

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