The Fourth Princess

From the bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China.

Available Feb. 17, 2026

T wo young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present.

Shanghai, 1911. Lisan Liu is elated when she is hired as secretary to wealthy American Caroline Stanton, the new mistress of Lennox Manor on the outskirts of Shanghai’s International Settlement. However, the Manor has a dark history of bankruptcy and suicide, and soon Lisan’s childhood nightmares resurface with more intensity, melding with haunted visions of a woman in red. Adding to her unease is the young gardener, Yao, who both entices and disturbs her.

Newly-married Caroline looks forward to life in China with her husband, Thomas, away from the shadows of another earlier tragedy. But then an unwelcome guest, Andrew Grey, attends her party and claims to know secrets she can’t afford to have exposed. At the same party, the notorious princess Masako Kyo approaches Lisan with questions about the young woman’s family that the orphaned Lisan can’t answer.

As Caroline struggles to deal with Grey’s extortion, her husband Thomas falls deathly ill, and Lisan’s future is upended when she learns the truth about her past, and why her identity has been hidden all these years. All the while, strange incidents accelerate, driving Lisan to doubt her sanity as Lennox Manor seems unwilling to release her until she fulfills demands from beyond the grave.