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Synopsis
Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PO fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters -- May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee -- have made during the last year. With the exponential expansion of the luxury-brand market in China, Ava and her partners are determined to see a young Chinese designer break out in Europe and North America and they go full out in London.
The show is a success, but perhaps too much of one. It attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. The women are invited to Milan to meet with Ventola and senior executives in his company. VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters' stake in PO. Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PO comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base is pressured by VLG to abandon them.
Ava decides to strike back and turns to Xu for assistance, leading to a confrontation between two of the world's biggest global crime syndicates: the Camorra and the Triad.
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- Ian attended Winter Institute in 2017 and we've pitched him for the Left Coast Crime 2017, LA Times Festival of Books, NEIBA, and Texas Book Festival.
- The Kind of Shanghai received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and has been endorsed by Linwood Barclay, Taylor Stevens, Barbara Peters, and Richard Katz.
- We gave away galleys of The Princeling of Nanjing at ALA Midwinter, and will be giving away galleys of The Couturier of Milan at ALA Annual and BEA in 2017.
- The Couturier of Milan will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss.
- We will be releasing The Imam of Tawi-Tawi in February 2018 to satiate demand for the popular series, which will coincide with our Canadian publication.
- TV rights to the popular series have been optioned and are in development
- Previously published in the US, Ian Hamilton has also been published in 8 territories worldwide.