The release date for the English version of 'Peony in Love' by
Lisa See is Jun 2007. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Three women in seventeenth-century China get emotionally entangled with The Peony Pavilion, a well-known opera said to induce lovesickness and even death. Among them is Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar, who falls prey to the opera's spell and returns as a "hungry ghost" to haunt her former fiancé, who has since wed someone else.