Now an instant national bestseller, a USA Today bestseller, and an Amazon Book of the Month, from the author of the Netflix hit,Love in Taipei. Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle, all while trying to defuse a heist in this novel by New York Times bestseller Abigail Hing Wen.

After a magical kiss at Prom, best friends Tan Lee and Winter Woo agree to cool it off, a plan that goes awry when their parents jointly head off to Hawaii and leave Tan and Winter to babysit Tan's sister Sana together. If that isn't complicated enough, Tan's ex-girlfriend from Shanghai arrives on his doorstep with money stolen from her billionaire father and thugs on her heels.

Tan soon finds himself on the run through the San Francisco Bay Area, trying to out-manuever international hackers and protect his friends, family and sister--and his own heart.

Now an instant national bestseller, a USA Today bestseller, and an Amazon Book of the Month, from the author of the Netflix hit,Love in Taipei. Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle, all while trying to defuse a heist in this novel by New York Times bestseller Abigail Hing Wen.

After a magical kiss at Prom, best friends Tan Lee and Winter Woo agree to cool it off, a plan that goes awry when their parents jointly head off to Hawaii and leave Tan and Winter to babysit Tan's sister Sana together. If that isn't complicated enough, Tan's ex-girlfriend from Shanghai arrives on his doorstep with money stolen from her billionaire father and thugs on her heels.

Tan soon finds himself on the run through the San Francisco Bay Area, trying to out-manuever international hackers and protect his friends, family and sister--and his own heart.

Welcome to The Vale, a world that grows by the power of imagination

A magical new phenomenon from the New York Times Best Selling author and executive producer of the Loveboat, Taipei series (adapted to the Netflix film Love in Taipei).

Thirteen-year-old Bran Joseph Lee has spent half his life building the Vale, an immersive, AI-generated, virtual-reality environment using technology created by his inventor parents. It's a lush fantasy world complete with a Blue Forest, a Castle, and adventures with his mushroom-obsessed Elf named Gnomly - a much better place to spend his days compared to his real life, where his parents have suffered through the failed launches of one invention after another.

Bran wants nothing more than to see his Elves come fully to life, a hope that seems on the brink of reality when he enters the Vale in a multi-million dollar competition to fund its further development. But instead, things in the Vale begin to go wrong: The sunlight is fading. A beautiful girl appears from nowhere. A wizard is stealing from the Vale's inhabitants. And the strangest part of all is that none of this is the young inventor's doing.

Can Bran and Gnomly uncover the truth of what is happening before both their worlds are destroyed?

Look out for The Vale -- Origins, the short film prequel to The Vale starring three time Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga, coming to film festivals and screenings near you!

Exposes both the wonder of AI and its pitfalls, and the elastic boundary between. Storytelling at its best!

--Kathi Appelt, National Book Award Finalist and Newbury Honor author of The Underneath