In 1950s Hong Kong, English newlywed Claire Pendleton finds work as a piano teacher and begins an affair with her employer's chauffer, leading her to learn about the man's previous affair with a Eurasian socialite and his devastating past.

Betty, who spent the war in a Japanese internment camp, meets Sir Edward Feathers, a romantically awkward barrister, in Hong Kong and agrees to marry him, despite knowing neither she nor Edward are in love.

""Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you'll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down." --Kevin Kwan From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Piano Teacher, a beautiful, transporting novel about motherhood, marriage, and friendship Janice Y. K. Lee's blockbuster hit debut, The Piano Teacher, was called "immensely satisfying" by People, "intensely readable" by O, The Oprah Magazine, and "a...

When photojournalist Jordan Glass discovers the face of her murdered sister on a painting in a series of female nudes in a museum -- a series collectors have come to believe are not sleeping models, but quite dead ones -- she becomes both hunter and hunted in a duel with the anonymous artist, a gifted murderer who knows the secrets of Jordan's family, including truths she has never had the courage to face.