![]() Even the tension between Red Lotus and her “enemy” could have been a little stronger. Whilst parts of it were good, there was little tension or much to fear from the apparent enemies of women, despite Ben’s apparent wealth and the hatred of mixed marriages etc all around them. ![]() This book is split across two women: Li-Xia, who works her way from being the unwanted daughter of a wealthy man’s concubine to the wife of one of the richest Eurasian men in Hong Kong, followed by her daughter – the “Red Lotus” of the title. After spending her teenage years in an opium den, she begins a quest to find Ben Deverill, the father she never knew, and to reclaim her birthright. ![]() Raised until the age of twelve by an elderly Taoist sage who is master of the White Crane and trained as one of his last disciples, she is sold into slavery after he’s assassinated. ![]() A novel set in China in the 1920s about Siu Sing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and the foreign devil ship’s captain who rescued her from death. ![]()
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