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San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a silver- voiced soprano whose career needs rekindling, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, whose collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. But their lives are thrown into turmoil when Thornton disappears . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last quest for justice.