THE CAPTIVATING HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA 'Brilliantly written
masterful storytelling and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very very
long time' HEATHER MORRIS author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Love and loss. Sisterhood
and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing's fates are bound together. As a child Little
Flower is sold to Linjing's wealthy family to become a muizai . In a fit of childish jealousy
over her new handmaiden's ladylike bound feet and talent for embroidery Linjing ensures Little
Flower can never leave her to ascend in society. Despite their starkly different places in the
Fong household over the years the two girls must work together to secure both their futures
through Linjing's marriage. As the two grow up they are by turns bitter rivals and tentative
friends. Until scandal strikes the family and Linjing and Little Flower's lives are
unexpectedly thrown into chaos. Linjing's fall from grace could be an opportunity for Little
Flower - but will their intertwined fates lead to triumph or tragedy for them both?
