Evil Wheel

My new book is out: Immortals, Demons, and the Red Chamber

In the eighth year of the Red Chamber, a workplace superstar transmigrates into Jia Baoyu, whose youth is slipping away.

The Jia household is full of fox demons, the Xue household is home to a clan of bluebirds, and Lin Daiyu is a spirit too frail to carry a burden. Baoyu had planned to flee the mansion so he could escape the fate of “a vast expanse of whiteness, where all is truly clean,” but he discovers that the world is far too dangerous. He has no choice but to stay put.

Scholars rule the land, monsters run rampant, and the countryside outside Zhongdu is filled with wailing refugees. Even the gilded Jia household cannot escape the sorrow of mortal life.

Daiyu has ten years left before she weeps herself dry, and Jin Chuan is about to throw herself down a well. Baoyu looks at Xiren, the pretty maid in a silver-red jacket, and asks:

“Can you read?”

A different Red Chamber!

A different kind of bittersweet thrill!

No need to say more. Come on in and see for yourselves!