China Bride — Michael William Scott

Across the boundless seas sails the China Clipper.

Its captain, Jonathan Rakehell, has promises to keep. To his family who have risked their reputation and fortune on his vision. To a beautiful Chinese woman who has dared to love him. To his own conscience which abhors the opium trade.

He docks in the harbor of a Middle Kingdom far different from the country that had once welcomed his clipper ship. Torn by strife and lawlessness, it will entangle him in its internal agonies and set him on a course of infinite peril.