Jade Nguyen is haunted by a ghost in her father's decrepit home in Vietnam, and she must scare her family away to save them.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A RIVETING DEBUT FROM A REMARKABLE NEW VOICE!

TRANG THANH TRAN WEAVES AN IMPRESSIVE GOTHIC MYSTERY IN WHICH JADE'S FATHER IS DETERMINED TO RESTORE A DECREPIT HOME TO ITS FORMER GLORY AND JADE IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO FEELS THE SOUL-CRUSHING DEVASTATION OF COLONIALISM LINGERING WITHIN ITS WALLS.

-ANGELINE BOULLEY, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER

JADE NGUYEN HAS ALWAYS LIED TO FIT IN. SHE'S STRAIGHT ENOUGH, VIETNAMESE ENOUGH, AMERICAN ENOUGH – AT LEAST FOR THIS SUMMER WITH HER ESTRANGED FATHER IN VIETNAM. JUST FIVE WEEKS OF IGNORING THE QUIETLY DECAYING FRENCH COLONIAL HOUSE HE'S FIXING UP, THEN COLLEGE AND FREEDOM ARE HERS.

BUT SOON JADE BEGINS WAKING UP EVERY MORNING CERTAIN THAT SOMETHING HAS CLAWED DOWN HER THROAT. . . FROM THE INSIDE. THEN THE GHOST OF A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE VISITS HER WITH A CRYPTIC WARNING: DON'T EAT.

WHEN HER FATHER AND LITTLE SISTER DON'T BELIEVE HER, JADE DECIDES TO SCARE THEM INTO LEAVING BY STAGING SOME HAUNTING EVENTS OF HER OWN. SHE RECRUITS FLORENCE, THE DAUGHTER OF HER DAD'S BUSINESS ASSOCIATE (AND MORE OF A DISTRACTION THAN JADE BARGAINED FOR) TO HELP.

BUT THE HOUSE HAS OTHER PLANS. IT'S HUNGRY. A HOME, AFTER ALL, IS ONLY AS POWERFUL AS THOSE WHO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO ITS BONES. AND THIS ONE IS DETERMINED NEVER TO BE ABANDONED AGAIN …

THIS DELICIOUSLY SPOOKY, YEARNINGLY ROMANTIC GHOST STORY FROM A BRILLIANT DEBUT AUTHOR WILL THRILL FANS OF KALYNN BAYRON AND WILDER GIRLS BY RORY POWER.

Weight: 246g
Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526657084