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The House of a Thousand Lanterns
Victoria Holt
A young Englishwoman falls for a man she cannot trust amid the secrets of Victorian Hong Kong.
Description
It was the house she had dreamed of since childhood . . . the house where her worst nightmares were about to come true. . . . The House of a Thousand Lanterns.Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy. Nor that she would fall in love with a man she could not trust. Against the background of nineteenth- century England and Hong Kong, Victoria Holt unfolds the story of a young Englishwoman who found a strange new world . . . .
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