“In Syonan (Japanese Occupied Singapore) Su Lin goes to work for the Japanese overlords to keep her family safe… in a house with a cursed cannonball tree. She tries to dismiss superstitions about the fragrant flowers and deadly fruit of the cannonball tree, but is shocked to discover the body of Mimi, a trouble making relative beneath it.
And this is only the first of the deaths of people who have been making life hard for her.
Can Su Lin have summoned a tree demon who is now killing on her behalf? She has to untangle the cannonball tree’s secrets to prevent further deaths—and possibly turn the tide of the war…”