<p><b>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br><br>''The two main characters will captivate you as their paths are destined to cross... you won''t be able to put this one down!''<br><b>Reese Witherspoon</b><br><br>''I was willingly propelled into a fascinating and exotic world''<br><i><b>Daily Mail</b></i><br><br><b><i>They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us...</i><br></b><br>In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master''s severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master''s soul will roam the earth forever. <br><br>Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother''s debts. One night, Ji Lin''s dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. <br><br>As time runs out fo