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The Scarlet Princess
Book 2 in the China Series series.
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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 know it, but Adela – the last of the Manchu princesses – is a highly valuable commodity.
Not only does she boast the blood of the Imperial rulers, she has all the characteristics of a true princess: ravishing beauty, regal bearing, keen intelligence, and an over-riding talent for survival. Adela will need all these things if she is to live through the utter turbulence in which she is shortly to be cast. Adela’s ancestry makes her valuable to monarchists, revolutionaries and military strongmen during the transition from Qing empire to republic, turning personal survival into a question of dynastic legitimacy.
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