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Guardians of Dawn: Yuli

Guardians of Dawn: Yuli

YA FantasyFantasy
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Princess Yulana has too many crises and not enough time. Her grandfather has died without naming an heir. Civil war is pulling the Morning Realms apart. A strange waking-dreamer sickness is spreading through the land, hungry ghosts roam the steppes — and Kho, her former best friend turned rival, will not stop getting under her skin.

The struggle for power in the north will be decided by the Grand Game, a competition whose winner determines not just the future of Yuli's people but the course of the entire empire.

And Yuli is the Guardian of Wind. With the Guardian of Fire and the Guardian of Wood, it falls to her to bring order out of chaos — which means managing the demonic and the political at the same time, and hoping neither one kills her first.

Guardians of Dawn: Yuli is the third book in S. Jae-Jones's Morning Realms fantasy series, published in August 2025.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

AdventurousTenseRomanticAtmosphericHopeful
RivalsCourt IntrigueChosen OneFriends to LoversFound Family

Genres

YA Fantasy Fantasy Young Adult Adventure

About the author

S
S. Jae-Jones

S. Jae-Jones, who goes by JJ, is an American writer and artist. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she worked as an editor at St. Martin's Press before writing full time. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wintersong duology — Wintersong and Shadowsong — and of the Guardians of Dawn series, which began with Zhara (2023) and continued with Ami (2024) and Yuli (2025). She lives in North Carolina.

Characters

Princess YulanaProtagonist

Known as Yuli; the Guardian of Wind, facing a succession crisis and the Grand Game.

KhoSupporting

Yuli's former best friend, now her rival.

Jin ZharaSupporting

The Guardian of Fire.

Li AmiSupporting

The Guardian of Wood.

All characters in Guardians of Dawn: Yuli