Burning Roses

Burning Roses is a fairy tale from S. L. Huang, a Hugo Award winner, that weaves together romance, family ties, demons, and gods who have been forgotten. Readers who enjoy the work of Zen Cho and JY Yang may find a good match here.

Rosa, better known as Red Riding Hood, has had enough of wolves and the forests they haunt. Hou Yi the Archer is worn out and knows that her best years are behind her. Both would prefer a quiet retirement, but the world has other plans for them.

When deadly sunbirds start tearing through the countryside and endangering everything they have come to care about, Rosa and Hou Yi have no choice but to team up. Now older and wiser, they set out on a journey that becomes a reckoning with the sacrifices they made, the mistakes they regret, the choices they faced, the family they have, and a search for immortality.