Lorielle — Marilyn Granbeck

IN THE SHROUDED TURMOIL OF THE EAST, HER HEART WAS A FIXED AND GLOWING STAR...

She came to Canton an innocent, a daughter of Victoria's reign. But in this city surging with life, glutted with greed, Lorielle must bloom quickly to womanhood. For her rare beauty aroused the lust of one man, the love of another, and she must act boldly to escape the destiny chosen for her by unscrupulous men, among them her opium-trading father.

Ever-new intrigues spawn amid the silken chambers of the mandarins, aboard the swift clippers of the British intruders...and at their core were the dream-laden mists of the poppy -- and the jet-eyed, passionate...Lorielle.