Jasmine Borschberg, born in Canada and a Swiss national, currently resides in Bali, Indonesia. She comes from a long line of storytellers and historians. Jasmine loves to weave tales full of historical facts, melding together memorable stories with characters you’ll remember long after the story ends. When she’s not in Bali, she visits her two children in the USA or spends her summers in Switzerland.
At twelve, Li Hua is sold to a floating brothel, but destiny has other plans. Behind the walls of the Forbidden City, she evolves from concubine to spy. She navigates treachery, suppresses a rebellion, and engineers a bold escape with only a mastery of martial arts and a cinnabar dragon pendant imbu...