Ki's second book on the Divine Feminine is 'Flow Down Like Silver,' a novel about the numinous and gifted Hypatia of Alexandria, a tragically ignored historical figure of towering intellect who searched through intellect for what the Magdalene knew in her heart. She chose the figure of Mary Magdalene to tell that tale in her novel 'The Secret Magdalene.' Nancy Savoca, a brilliant independent film maker (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize with her first film, 'True Love') traveled all the way to Vermont to option the book as her next film. Eventually Ki began writing again, but her subject became the moment at age 19 that informed her life. When Vivian died in 1995, Ki stopped writing, living on Standing Room Only Farm in Vermont. ('China Blues' was reissued by Eio Books in 2012.) a long hard but ultimately fascinating trip. 'China Blues,' and her second novel, 'Chasing Women,' introduced Longfellow to Hollywood. Her first book, 'China Blues,' was the subject of a bidding war. 'Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera,' garnered a host of delighted, if slightly puzzled, national reviews. On it, she and Vivian wrote and staged a unique musical for the sheer joy of it. It remains there today as a Bristol landmark.

In England, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to the port of Bristol where it became the Old Profanity Showboat.

She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall. Ki Longfellow, born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, grew up in Hawaii and Marin County, California, but ended up living in France and England for many years. Gripped by River House, trapped in an aging hotel of mirrors only Houdini could escape, how much can haunt a mind before it too is only a thing once imagined? 'A haunting and disturbing journey through the psyche.'-Erika Mailman, Author of 'The Witch's Trinity' Intense, literary, and harrowing, Houdini Heart is a tale of bone-chilling horror, emotional torment, and psychological terror. Her atonement? Or her suicide note? But life is never as you dream it, and River House isn't what she'd always imagined it was. To a child, the splendid hotel was mysterious and magical and all its glamorous guests knew delicious secrets.Cocooned in its walls, she will write one last book. Pursued by those she can't outrun, anguished by a guilt she can't endure, and driven close to madness, she flees to the one place she's ever called a small town in Vermont where River House still stands.

But now? She's alone, tortured by a horrifying secret no woman could bear. Weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood's biggest writers, wed to one of its greatest stars. Once caught in its pages, there's no escaping Longfellow's terrible tale. HOUDINI HEART harkens back to the masters of suspenseful supernatural Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, but speaks with a wholly fresh voice.

Houdini Heart by Ki Longfellow