#1 – The Crimson Pagoda
The newly married and youthful Mrs Constance Baird feels like her life is only just beginning as she sets sail to join her husband, a famous American missionary, in Peking, China. She is desperately excited to explore not only the foreign land with all its alien…
#2 – The Scarlet Princess
The year is 1911, and orphaned teenager Adela Wynne, after growing up in America, is sailing back towards her beloved homeland of China, together with her formidable aunt Constance. But three thousand years of imperial rule are rapidly coming to an end. Little does she yet…
#3 – Red Dawn
China, 1926. Widowed writer Joan Carter arrives to research the life of the late Empress Dowager Cixi and becomes involved with Geoffrey Marne, a man she initially distrusts. Their relationship develops while warlords, foreign interests and competing political factions struggle for control of the republic. Violence…