A concubine can be killed by her husband without anyone caring… There is only one way the Enforcer can guarantee the white opium smuggler’s death without causing an international incident: marriage. The delicate political climate complicates the matter, however. But a white devil, a ghost barbarian, has no allies, and when she is caught by the Enforcer everyone expects her to meet a swift death. Leaving the politics of the Forbidden City behind he continues battling the opium trade that is enslaving his homeland even as he searches for clues to the whereabouts of his sister, who was sold to pay for Zhi-Gang’s education.Īn unwanted orphan turned drug runner, Anna “Sister Marie” Thompson struggles with opium addiction, her one clear goal to get out of China alive. Tau Zhi-Gang, a mandarin known as the Emperor’s Enforcer, has been tasked with executing anyone involved in drug trafficking. British merchants are flooding the country with opium. The traditionalist Empress Dowager has staged a coup and put the reforming young Emperor under house arrest, and foreign empires are assaulting Chinese sovereignty. In the twilight years of the Qing dynasty, China is riven by internal as well as external power struggles. As it turns out, my purchase of Tempted Tigress - an impulse primarily motivated by the uncommon setting, China – proved the luckiest of mistakes.ġ900.
It also happens to be an erotic romance, which took me by surprise and at first put me off. Its characters are creatures of a specific time, place, and culture. Jade Lee’s Tempted Tigress belongs to that rare species, a romance that honours the label ‘historical’.
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