Rice in Silver Bowls — Alice Ekert-Rotholz

THEY WERE TORN BETWEEN WESTERN WAYS AND THE EXOTIC, SEDUCTIVE SPLENDOR OF THE EAST.

JOHANNES. A businessman living in Bangkok, he grew to love its golden temples and the sensual pleasures of his Eurasian mistress. But when his wife and children came from Europe to join him, all that would change ...MARTHA. Strong, practical, yet loving too, she felt it her duty to understand her husband Johannes' new home--even when the mystifying East threatened the very lives of those she loved. KARIN. Half Swedish, half Malay, she had been Johannes' lover. Beautiful and dangerous, she was hungry for the white world that rejected her--and desperate for revenge. PAULINE. Johannes' cousin. Born of a German father and a Thai mother, she wore her dual heritage in her flame-colored hair and almond-shaped eyes. Trapped between East and West, which world--and what kind of man--would finally claim her?