The Court of the Flowering Peach

the long version

Wild ecstasy and soaring passion in the secret heart of the Orient... Katie Adair, the schoolmaster's beautiful daughter. She would be swept from seclusion in England to sail the China Seas with the brooding Rupert Llewellyn in search of precious silks, jade and pearls. Betrayed, abandoned, an exotic fate awaited her... Threatened by subtle hatred and unrelenting evil, cherished and adored as the royal favorite, she would learn the meaning on unleashed passion in the arms of a magnificent Manchu prince. Forced to choose between two worlds, she was destined to pick a blossom of exquisite beauty and find eternal love in...*The Court of the Flowering Peach*.