The Vault
A selection of our current and forthcoming titles.
New York Chinatown, 1982
Amid the relentless hum of sewing machines and a silence that has endured for far too long, an ordinary Chinese garment worker begins to question the course of her life.
As a historic labor strike quietly gathers momentum across Chinatown, she finds herself drawn into a movement that will challenge everything she once believed about survival, dignity, and belonging.
Inspired by true events, The Stilled, The Unleashed is a story of labor, womanhood, immigration, and awakening. It sheds light on lives long overlooked by history, and on how, in the face of fear and silence, ordinary people gradually reclaim their voices.
About the Author
R.M. Qin
Award-winning Novelist & Screenwriter
Coming Soon
At the turn of the millennium in New York, a young Chinese immigrant struggles to balance family expectations, personal ambition, and the desire to define her own future.
Three Hearts is a novel of love, loss, identity, and belonging. A story of heartbreak, resilience, and self-discovery in a changing city.
Winner of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition
Coming Soon from GEM HOUSE PRESS
R.M. Qin
Award-winning novelist and screenwriter based in New York
Coming Soon
In this intimate collection of essays and short memoirs, author Amber Z. Wong returns to the people, places, and moments that shaped her early life.
Set against the backdrop of a small Chinese city, these stories recall childhood summers beneath locust trees, old neighborhoods now vanished, family gatherings, school days, chance encounters, and the quiet emotions that linger long after the years have passed.
Written with warmth, humor, and reflection, When Stories Drifted In is a gathering of memories carried by time, much like familiar scents carried by the wind. Some stories are joyful, some bittersweet, and some unexpectedly funny, but together they form a portrait of ordinary lives and the enduring connections that define them.
A book about remembering, belonging, and the stories that find us when we least expect them.
A Home for Stories That Endure
People have always needed stories.
Around campfires. On ships crossing dark oceans. In crowded cities. In lonely rooms where the night seemed too long.
Long before books existed, stories traveled from one person to another. They carried hope. They carried memory. They carried the knowledge that someone, somewhere, had felt the same fear, the same love, the same hunger, and the same wonder.
That has never changed.
Stories come from many places.
Some are born from hardship. Some from joy. Some tell of distant journeys and impossible dreams. Others speak of ordinary lives, quiet afternoons, and the small moments that shape a human heart.
A child may find comfort in a tale before sleep.
A young dreamer may discover courage in the pages of a novel.
A weary traveler may open a book and, for a little while, feel less alone.
Each story serves its own purpose.
Like gemstones, no two are alike.
Some burn bright as fire. Some glow softly as moonlight. Some are rough and hidden beneath the earth, waiting years before anyone recognizes their worth.
GEM HOUSE was built for such stories.
We publish works that entertain, inspire, comfort, challenge, and endure. Literary fiction and popular fiction. Romance and adventure. Children's books and stories for those who have long since grown up. We believe that laughter is no less valuable than reflection, and that wonder is no less important than wisdom.
The world moves quickly.
Stories remind us to pause.
To imagine.
To remember.
To feel.
And so we gather them here.
Like sailors returning with treasures from distant shores.
Like gardeners saving seeds for another season.
Like keepers of a vault preserving what time might otherwise forget.
Because somewhere, someday, a reader will open a book and discover exactly the story they needed to find.
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