Jade

Once Alice was a missionary child...but a bloody massacre tore her from the smug sanctity of her home and transported her as a hostage to faraway Hunan province.

Now she is called "Uncut Jade"...a "barbarian" fit only to be a servant in a trditional Chinese household until the patriarch of the house of Chu invites her into his bed to learn the Chinese arts of love as his teenage concubine. Never again will she view the world with a westerner's eyes -- even after her "escape" and her journey to the treaty ports of the coast, through the mountains of Kweichow and the mysterious cities of Shanghai and Peking. Love awaits her in the arms of a Chinese radical, independence will become her right as a businesswoman. She will achieve identity as a woman of two worlds -- Jade