'One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride...' In 1890s Malaya, seventeen-year-old Li Lan receives an unusual proposal: marriage to the recently dead son of the esteemed Lim family. Li Lan knows what this means for her impoverished father. She has to consider it carefully. The Lims' wealth and grandeur is dizzying, but Li Lan has set her sights on another - surely she has to be certain of her heart's true desire before committing to life with a ghost? Night after night, Li Lan finds herself drawn into another world. One where boundaries between reality and dreams are blurred, and where the afterlife shows itself to be a place of terror. temptation.. and delight. Li Lan must uncover the mysteries of the ghost world, and be united with her true love, before she is trapped there for all time. A haunting, exotic and romantic ghost story.