Quinn, Kate,

The Phoenix crown : a novel / Kate Quinn and Janie Chang. - First edition. - 391 pages ; 23 cm

San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined... until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.

ISBN: 9780063339972 9780063304734 0063304732

LCCN: 2023046789

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Earthquakes--Fiction.
Antiques--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Women singers--Fiction.
Chinese Americans--Fiction.
Nineteen hundreds (Decade)--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Paris (France)--History--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3617.U578 / P56 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6