The Manor of Dreams

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They say what you don't know can't hurt you. But they're wrong. Silence can be deadly.

Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar - but at what should have been the peak of her career, she became a recluse, her life shrouded in mystery.

Now, her daughters, Lucille and Renata, and her granddaughter, Lily, are gathered for the reading of her will, expecting to inherit the sprawling California garden estate Vivian hadn't left in years.

Instead, thanks to a last-minute change to her will, the house is passed on to someone else: Elaine Deng and her daughter Nora. Lucille and Renata are shocked - they haven't spoken to Elaine for decades. Not since the tragedy that fractured all of their lives.

Vying for the estate, both families move into the crumbling, vine-covered manor. As Vivian's daughters sift through the remnants of her life looking for clues about her death, they discover they are being haunted by something far more sinister than their memories...

Will the families uncover the truth before it's too late to save the next generation Or will the manor of dreams - and its deadly secrets - finally lay claim to its owners

The Manor of Dreams is full to the brim with romance, betrayal, ambition and sacrifice; an addictive page-turner that examines how families pass down the cost of silence. This atmospheric gothic page-turner is Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Author Bio

Christina Li is the award-winning author of children's books Clues to the Universe, which was a Washington Post summer book club pick, and Ruby Lost and Found, which was an NPR and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year and recognised for the Asian Pacific American Librarians' Award for Best Children's Literature. She is also the author of YA title True Love and Other Impossible Odds. She graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Economics and Public Policy. She grew up in the Midwest and California but now calls New York home. The Manor of Dreams is her adult debut.