03167cam a2200589 i 4500 1273676041 TxAuBib 20240517120000.0 231010s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023046789 9780063304734 paperback 0063304732 paperback (OCoLC)1402820154 TxAuBib rda Quinn, Kate, author. The Phoenix crown : a novel / Kate Quinn and Janie Chang. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] ©2024. 391 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes excerpts from The Briar Club by Kate Quinn and The Porcelain Moon by Janie Chang. "From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles."-- Provided by publisher. 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. 20240517. Earthquakes California San Francisco. Antiques Fiction. Women Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Women singers Fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction. Antiques. fast Earthquakes. fast Women. fast Women fast Fiction. Women. fast Missing persons. fast Women singers. fast Chinese Americans. fast California fast San Francisco. United States. fast HIstorical fiction. Fiction. fast Novels. fast Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. fast Historical fiction. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Chang, Janie, author.