![]() ![]() 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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