This deliciously spooky; yearningly romantic ghost story from a brilliant debut author will thrill fans of Kalynn Bayron and Wilder Girls by Rory Power. Jade Nguyen has always lied to fit in. She's straight enough; Vietnamese enough; American enough - at least for this summer with her estranged father in Vietnam. Just five weeks of ignoring the quietly decaying French colonial house he's fixing up; then college and freedom are hers. But soon Jade begins waking up every morning certain that something has clawed down her throat ... from the inside. Then the ghost of a beautiful bride visits her with a cryptic warning: DON'T EAT. When her father and little sister don't believe her; Jade decides to scare them into leaving by staging some haunting events of her own. She recruits Florence; the daughter of her dad's business associate (and more of a distraction than Jade bargained for) to help. But the house has other plans. It's hungry. A home; after all; is only as powerful as those who breathe new life into its bones. And this one is determined never to be abandoned again ...