The Academy Chase

The Carillon Lips — Volume VI

By Vienna Leary

Some hearts are harder to catch than fugitives.

At the Golden Jade Academy, learning is only part of the education. Friendships develop, loyalties are tested, and the distance between what people feel and what they dare to say can become remarkably difficult to cross.

Mi Yang and Gu Zhi have survived enough to know that affection is not always simple. Between misunderstandings, unexpected encounters, stubborn independence and the interference of people who think they know better, their growing relationship becomes a pursuit neither quite knows how to manage.

Around them, the Academy is becoming something larger than its founders imagined. Young people arrive carrying histories of their own, while the older generation discovers that creating a place of safety also means allowing others the freedom to make mistakes.

Warm, humorous and tender, The Academy Chase explores love, belonging, chosen family and the difficult art of trusting someone enough to let them come close.

Set in third-century China during the Western Jin dynasty, The Carillon Lips continues its story of people building lives together in the shadow of war, duty and change.

The sixth volume of The Carillon Lips, continuing from The Qin Player. Also available as part of the complete seven-volume collection.

Digital edition: one EPUB file. No physical book will be posted.