Muriel Molland Jernigan

A fictionalized account of the Empress Dowager of China, Tsu Hsi, last of the Manchus. She was one who "ate life," one for whom all the power of the Dragon throne could not give her what she sought. This is the story of Nala, born to luxury, who was sent at sixteen to the Summer Palace, to be the Emperor's concubine, and who lived to wrest the throne from the dying monarch. It is the story of Jung Lu, the Manchu Lord who gave her the only love she...