Paperback – 416 pages

FromNew York Timesbestselling author ofSold on a MondayandThe Ways We Hidecomes a story of one woman’s journey through Portland’s Chinatown and its infamous Shanghai tunnels, giving voice to those in the shadows in a spellbinding story of a young half-Chinese mother and her determination to forge a future for her daughter in a world that shuns outsiders.

Oregon, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of Portlands Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens disoriented in a dank underground cell. Though no stranger to upholding a faade, being half Chinese yet passing as white during a time of rising hatred against Chinese immigrants in America, shes perplexed by the male disguise she’s wearing. Of more pressing concern, however, are the dangers she faces as a crimped, or Shanghaied, sea bound to work as forced labor.

While struggling to recall the twisting path that led to her kidnappingfrom serving as a maid for the family of a dubious mayor to delving into the shocking case of a goldminers massacre, ultimately luring her into the seedy dealings of those Shanghai Tunnelsshe desperately tries to escape so she can return to her young daughter, left in danger in a place where unearthed secrets can prove even more deadly than the dark recesses of Chinatown.