New York: Ballantine, (1998.). SIGNED - Author's first novel - a 1992 Nebula Finalist for best novel and a New York Times Notable Book. . A story of literary magic beginning in Washington Territory in 1873 in a Chinese railway workers' camp- Sarah Canary is both murderer and madwoman, shapechanger and vampire, ghostlover and immortal. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. plus a reading guide. ISBN: 0-345-416449.