Product Description

Miranda Graham, a clothing designer and the widowed mother of two teenagers, is sent by her company to China to meet with officials at the factory manufacturing her designs. On her arrival, overwhelmed by the foreignness of China for which she was unprepared, she meets Yuan Li, a builder, the son of a Chinese mother and an American soldier, and himself a widowed father. Li helps her, giving her an introduction to China and helping her to get her bearings. What at first is a friendship based on mutual curiosity soon blossoms into a passionate love affair that bridges the cultural divide between them. Li and Miranda spend all of their spare time alone together, lost in their love. Soon, however, the political and cultural realities intrude upon their idyllic relationship, and Miranda and Li must face the future and a relationship made impossible by everything but love.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99678 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'The author creates believable conversations between intelligent people, a rarity in romance fiction. A humdinger of a book' Kirkus Reviews

About the Author
Judith Barnard and Michael Fain, a husband and wife writing team, live in Chicago and Aspen, Colorado.

Customer Reviews

This is a heart wrenching story of cross-cultural love.
This is a well researched and written book by the authors, who have managed to capture the feelings and passion of an American woman falling in love with a Chinese man in Beijing, while she is on a business trip. I loved the story line woven in and around their relationship that describes the struggle of a new China trying to come to terms with and deal with their past. The intensity of their feelings for each other really comes across the pages and grips you to the bitter sweet end.