The Phoenix Crown
Quinn, Kate2024
Books
Find it!
San Francisco, 1906. In a city booming with new money and possibility, two very different women seek an escape: Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, has only days to avoid an arranged marriage and Gemma, an opera singer, desperately needs to reignite her career. Together with Alice Eastwood, a fiercely independent botanist, the women step into the glittering orbit of Henry Thornton, a connoisseur and railroad magnate. It is a world in which Thornton pulls the strings -- and in which opportunity beckons, along with glimpses of rare objects of desire. At its very centre is Thornton's priceless antique, the Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. But all that was promised is taken away when a devastating earthquake rips the city apart. Betrayal and danger are at every turn -- and, as secrets come tumbling out, it is impossible to know whom to trust. The five years later at a sumptuous ball in the palace of Versailles, the Phoenix Crown mysteriously reappears, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.
Main title:
The Phoenix Crown / Kate Quinn and Janie Chang.
Author:
Quinn, Kate, authorChang, Janie, author
Imprint:
London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
369 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A rare treasure. A mystery. And terrifying danger ..."--Cover.
ISBN:
9780008644550 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1955907