The Opium Lord’s Daughter

WINNER – INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2020 for Multicultural Fiction FINALIST – BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST  – SPR BOOK AWARDS FINALIST  – READERS CHOICE AWARDS Can love survive through war, language, and cultural differences in the mid-1800s? For Lady Sui-Mei Lee and Travis Higgins, this was their burden to overcome. Travis thought he had his life all planned out. A second navigator for Jardine and Matheson out of London, his future in the China trade appeared set. Through his love of travel, sailing from Bombay to Canton, then back to England, he never expected an accidental meeting with Lady Sui-Mei, the beautiful and adventurous daughter of the top opium dealer, to completely transform his life. Sui-Mei, raised in the sheltered world of her father’s expansive compound, wasn’t the conventional young woman and her instant attraction to the blue-eyed Higgins opened her curious eyes to a world beyond what she’d ever known. Left in Macau by her father to “learn discipline,” instead, she discovers a new religion, a new language, and a new definition of who was a barbarian. Taking their futures into their own hands, Higgins and Sui-Mei go on a life or death mission behind enemy lines to save her family, locate her lost brother, and to pledge their love. Travel with them into the underbelly of the opium trade, corrupt officials, and the British corrosive attempts to open the Celestial Kingdom to the world. The Opium Lord’s Daughter is an expedition through the destruction of a culture, underscoring the hold and havoc drug empires continue to exert in society, even to this day.