Brocade — Jan Merlin

A TRAGIC LOVE WHICH DESTINED THEIR LIVES. -- For Jordan, his passion for Yukiko was as intense and as sudden as a tropical storm ending just as abruptly. When he returned to her and his son, he was years too late. -- Yukiko was as soft and gentle as a fragile flower. She lived only for the day that her handsome G.I. would return. She gave up her future to spare the life of the child of their love.

For Joe, the son whose American blood made him an outcast, it was a raw life in the slums of a great city where he was destined to pay for the sins of his mother engendering a hate for his absent father; the man his mother would always love.

For Wanda, Jordan's wife, she knew not what was her future. She could not conceive, thus she could give him no children. They both wanted them so desperately that adoption was the only alternative... until...

Brocade tells this story of unbridled passion, deep love, and the destruction that a foreign culture forces upon those that ignore its rules. A love stolen from the sorrows of World War II during the occupation of Japan ended 18 years later in the village in which it was conceived.