Before Jenna Hunterson left her abusive marriage, she was a teenager hopelessly in love. Before she owned a pie shop, she spent her afternoons in the kitchen learning to bake doors that she never opened. Before she became a mother, she watched her own suffer a life of stifled violence. Every pie started as just sugar, butter, and flour before it became a masterpiece.

Maya's grief appears with a capital-G. It is as much of a physical being as the grim reaper, who comes with his scythe to steal what belongs to him. It chokes her and smothers her and plants its foot against her chest to keep her in the coffin that Lochan chose.

Hannah visits Clay one last time to relive the night they met.

Wendy is a grown-up. It's the night of her debutante ball, and her world of knee socks and mathematics is swiftly replaced by a dash to marry her off as soon as possible. But what about the boy who haunts her dreams at night, the boy who just might have grown up alongside her?

Ellen watches a troubled young man stumble into a diner, haunted by ghosts from a war that she's only seen as paper dolls on a television screen. Can she learn to heal him before it's too late?

Despite being one of the longest running, most controversial, and haunting musical on Broadway, only so many sides of the story are told through the swooping orchestrations and lyrics. Miss Saigon: An Unauthorized Novelization seeks to cast light and enrich, sticking close to the original storyline with new dialogue and fresh perspective. The heat is on in Saigon!