The Heavenly Empress

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The governor Li Yuan has secret plans to overthrow the ruling dynasty. One day he goes on a pilgrimage to a distant temple to pray to the ancient gods. There, the governor meets a mysterious old man in brilliant white robes and receives from him a piece of jade in the form of a drop, supposedly endowed with divine power.
A few years later, Li Yuan comes to power and establishes a new Tang dynasty, which is destined to rule the Middle Kingdom. At the court of Tang, there is a clan of fortune tellers by the name of Bei that serves to the whole royal line. The fortune tellers experience ups and downs, and sometimes oblivion as not always emperors and members of the ruling family appreciate the service of the foretellers and pay tribute to them for their devotion. Nevertheless, the foretellers do not leave their post and carefully guard the intimate secrets of the imperial court. After the death of the emperor, the old fortuneteller passes away, and young Bei comes into the light. The young Bei is as like as to peas to his predecessor.
The history of the Tang dynasty and the Bei clan are connected by an invisible mystical thread. However, there are circumstances that can break the seemingly constant, strong bond...

About the author

Olga Kryuchkova was born in Moscow, 7 August 1966. After school, in 1983, she entered the Moscow technical school of automation and telemechanics as a mathematician-programmer, graduated with a red diploma and got a job at one of the Moscow aviation research institutes. In 1986 she entered the “Moscow Aviation Institute of Sergo Ordzhonikidze”, the faculty of aircraft engineering. She graduated from the institute in 1992. She started her literary activity in 2006. Her first novel, "Captain of the marauders", was published in the magazine of the publishing house “Podvig-Kentavr” in the series “Historical bestseller” (2007). Then in the same year, 2007, there was a love-historical novel “Family cross”, publishing house “Heleos” in the series “Lace of love”. In 2008, six novels of the writer were published (one was published under a pseudonym). In January 2008 the writer released the novel “Adventurers”, publishing house “Podvig-Kentavr”. Four other publications were released by “Heleos”: “The Gift of Aphrodite”, “Happy Choice”, “Riddles of Fate”, and under the pseudonym Olivia Claymore, the novel “French Messalina” was published. In the same year, the author was first published in the publishing house “Veche”: the book under the general title “Captain of the Marauders” includes two novels – “Captain of the Marauders” and “The Demon of Montsegur”. In 2009, four more novels were published: “The Adventurers”, “The Rose of Versailles”, “The Return of the Captain of the Marauders” and “The Heirs of the Yamato country”. All four novels were published in the publishing house “Veche”. Over the years of creativity many novels, books on Slavic esotericism, art therapy were published. Today there are 90 publications on various topics released by various publishers. Many works were written in collaboration with her daughter Elena Kryuchkova.

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