With the bad memories of the Cultural Revolution and a life of hard work behind them, Benfu and his treasured Calla Lily are content watching their daughters blossom--six young women who they adopted as their own. But when a clue to the whereabouts of the biological daughter they lost decades ago suddenly surfaces, they begin a frantic search to find their beloved Dahlia...

Li Jin has lived thirty years at the mercy of cruel foster parents and a bleak orphanage, often surviving on the streets. But now that she has a son, she must try to make a better life for them--even if it means withstanding the abuse of a seedy foreigner in exchange for a home. But when Erik's treatment turns truly sadistic, she must find a way to escape once and for all...

A beautiful yet haunting story about the "lost girls" of China, Tangled Vines takes us on a journey of heartbreak and then hope as we witness a woman's quest to change her fate and a family's last chance to untangle the lies of the past.