Shan Westin — half-Chinese, half-American, one hundred percent kung fubadass — is on a mission to recover five mystical jade animals before theyfall into the wrong hands. Over 15 years ago, Shan's mother led a secret societyof female martial artists sworn to protect the statues. When the Jade Circlelost four of the five statues during a murderous attack on their sanctuary,12-year-old Shan's destiny was sealed. It was she who carried the remainingtiger statue all the way to America; she who felt it clawing at her with theneed to recover the crane, snake, leopard and dragon. The Circle was destroyedthat night, and Shan hasn't seen her mother since. Shan has grown up under thetiger's unforgiving influence and the shadow of her mother's legacy. Her questto recover the statues takes her to upstate New York and Ian Dashall, a geekybut brave archaeology professor, and then on to France and England with Ian ather side. Finally, on a secret island off the coast of Hong Kong, Shan overcomestorture, betrayal and deadly tigers in order to battle the man who destroyed theJade Circle. But even as she faces off with him, she loses hope. How can shepossibly succeed where her mother had failed?Juno is a new imprint from Wildside Press. Read Less