Author Description

Though it is the year 1920 in the outside world, the past, the present, and the future overlap in one opulent, turn-of-the-century mansion. Surrounded by a lush forest teeming with wolves and the pulsating, shifting walls of her house, an eccentric heiress, Xia, finds herself perpetually confronting the traumas of her past while battling a parade of family members trying to evict her from the estate. Before the deceased patriarch of the family is even buried in the ground, Xia's handed an eviction notice and the feud begins-the looming wolves on the fringes even joining the fray. Xia's emotions and body take a toll as she counters every shady move and every memory that assaults her, trying all along to create a new life with her loving husbandand adopted daughter. As siblings and relatives start disappearing one by one, a police investigation reveals that some outsider-or maybe insider-may be motivated by the family's wealth, and two detectives vow to protect Xia and her family. But who are they protecting them from? An unforeseen villain with a grudge against the rich, the wolves, the ominous mansion, or is it the disquieting cracks in Xia's psyche?