From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Night Angels comes the epic story of a brilliant young woman-s dangerous rise to fame in the perilous world of jewelry in 1920s Shanghai-and the power of love and friendship. Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Faberg-gg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a fugitive and former master jeweler for Russia-s imperial palace. In gratitude, he leaves her his address in Shanghai and a promise of hospitality, forever altering her fate. A dazzling world of jewelry shrouded in secrecy and greed awaits, when later Anyu arrives at Mandelburg-s jewelry shop as an orphan. Single minded and relentless, Anyu will stop at nothing until she masters the craft of jewelry making. But she soon finds herself entangled in a treacherous underbelly of the city, where violent gangsters stalk the streets, vicious rivals seek to exploit her, and obsessive collectors conspire to destroy the people she loves
