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The Cinnabar Dragon
Jasmine Borschberg
出版Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024-11-08
主題Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN10358713359781035871339
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LCMsEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋At twelve, Li Hua is sold to a floating brothel, but destiny has other plans. Behind the walls of the Forbidden City, she evolves from concubine to spy. She navigates treachery, suppresses a rebellion, and engineers a bold escape with only a mastery of martial arts and a cinnabar dragon pendant imbued with the fatal poison known as GU. In modern-day San Francisco, Lu Carter, an adopted Chinese American and a medical engineer, is introduced to the mysteries of her family’s past when she receives an ancient chronicle. During a trip to Shanghai, she uncovers her birth mother’s dark history—imprisonment and debts owed to the wrong people. Upon her return, Lu is terminated from her job and faces a corporate espionage lawsuit after her invention is leaked. But the past and present soon collide.