A helter-skelter tale of grand passion, intrigue and espionage in the heart of turn-of-the-20th-century China – a simmering cauldron of hatred and resentment of foreigners that rises to the boil as the notorious Boxer rebels burn Christians in the streets...
Intrepid adventurer and acknowledged expert in Far Eastern affairs Major Stanton Ware puts his life on the line in a perilous undercover mission for his Prime Minister... But it isn't fear that takes his breath away and steals his heart – it's his very first glimpse of Zivana, the young part-English, part-Russian, part-Manchu beauty who is to be his mission partner!