Janie Chang

An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, The Phoenix Crown spans from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles....

France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo....

An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice, and undying love....

Set in early 20th-century Shanghai, this is a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan's search for her long-lost mother....

China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, 19-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee....

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 light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present.