The Fourth Princess

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling,once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to lighteven as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present. Shanghai1911. Lisan Liu is elated when she is hired as secretary to wealthy American Caroline Stantonthe new mistress of Lennox Manor on the outskirts of Shanghai’s International Settlement. Howeverthe Manor has a dark past due to a previous owner’s suicideand soon Lisan’s childhood nightmares resurface with more intensity and meld with haunted visions of a woman in red. Adding to her unease is the young gardenerYaowho both entices and disturbs her. Newly married Caroline looks forward to life in China with her husbandThomasaway from the shadows of another earlier tragedy. But an unwelcome guestAndrew Greyattends her party and claims to know secrets she can’t afford to have exposed. At the same partythe notorious princess Masako Kyo approaches Lisan with questions about the young woman’s family that the orphaned Lisan can’t answer. As Caroline struggles with Grey’s extortion and Thomas’s mysterious illnessLisan’s future is upended when she learns the truth about her pastand why her identity has been hidden all these years. All the whilestrange incidents acceleratedriving Lisan to doubt her sanity as Lennox Manor seems unwilling to release her until she fulfills demands from beyond the grave.