Now under one cover, the PHOENIX FEATHER quartet: Fledglings, Redbark, Firebolt, and Dragon and Phoenix.

Sherwood Smith's media happy place tends toward braided tales, with characters growing and changing in a world both breathtaking and strange, where striving to become the best one can be matters. She found that in Chinese and Korean historical dramas, which kicked off years of immersion in East Asian history, literature, art, and language.

In 2020 when the world hibernated from the pandemic, she began writing The Phoenix Feather quartet, drawing on all those influences, and throwing in all the tropes she liked best?disguises and secret identities, cultivation arcs, big tropes such as family sagas, and little ones such as "there was just one bed!"

Premise: Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities?and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather.

Then their three children were born, and found themselves cast out into the world...

The Phoenix Feather series, complete