What dark secrets lurk beneath the tangled vines of Hollywood's most mysterious estate?

Join acclaimed novelist Christina Li as she discusses her gothic masterpiece, The Manor of Dreams, a completely addictive and beautifully haunting page-turner.

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, turning further and further into herself until she died alone.

Now, her daughters gather for the reading of her will. They expect to inherit their childhood home: a grand Southern California manor house with a sprawling, labyrinthine garden. Instead, the will demands the manor and its decaying garden to be left to another family – the daughter of their childhood housekeeper, a family they haven't seen since the fateful tragedy that destroyed all their lives.

As both families move into the crumbling, vine-covered manor, Vivian's daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother's life. They soon discover they are being haunted by something far more sinister and vengeful than just their memories.

Interviewed by bestselling author Chloe Gong, Christina will explore themes ranging from intergenerational trauma to cultural identity in Hollywood's golden age. Once you step into these manor’s gates, you may never see your own inheritance the same way again.