Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1) H27

Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1) H27The story of the infamous last empress of China, by the author of the best selling Becoming Madame Mao It is the final days of the Chinese empire. Trade in opium with Europe is slowly corroding the power of the Ch'ing Dynasty. Orchid, a beautiful seventeen year old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom when she finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a low ranking concubine of the emperor. "The Empress Orchid

is an underground seduction lair

He's gorgeous

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Will she answer the call or choose a life filled with Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

But can blue skies

This isn't a how-to book

not even myself – not even the people I love

Growing up in extreme poverty in London

and Emma has built up a successful business on South London's meanest streets

controversial career

he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands

Then with the outbreak of World War II and danger looming in Liverpool