My Last Empress: A Novel

Authors: Chen, Da
Publisher: Crown
BISAC/Subject: FIC027050, FIC014000, FIC019000
ISBN: 9780307952707, Related ISBNs: 0307381307, 0307381315, 0307952703, 9780307381309, 9780307381316
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 288,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A sweeping story of passion and obsession, set against the upheavals of nineteenth-century imperial China, by the New York Times bestselling author Da Chen

When Samuel Pickens’s great love tragically loses her life, Samuel travels the globe, Annabelle always on his mind. Eventually, he comes face-to-face with the mirror image of his obsession in the last place he would expect and must discover her secrets and decide how far he will go for a woman he loves.

Da Chen immerses the reader in the world of the Chinese imperial palace, filled with ghosts and grief, where bewitching concubines, treacherous eunuchs, and fierce warlords battle for supremacy. Chen takes us deeply into an epic saga of nineteenth-century China, where one man searches for his destiny and a forbidden love.
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