When Kailai was small, she loved to listen to her grandfather’s stories about her country’s famous heroes. She never imagined she would become one.
In this Asian coming of age fantasy/adventure Kailai, a fourteen-year-old girl from a poor village near the Wudang Mountains, discovers she is heir to the Imperial throne of China. Kailai’s nemesis, the sorceress Daji, has enthralled the Emperor and murdered Kailai's mother in an attempt to usurp the throne. With the aid of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea and Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, Kailai battles the Dowager Daji, the Imperial Guard, and the deadly zhayu in an attenpt to save China.