It is the final days of the Chinese Empire. Trade in opium with Europe isslowly corroding the power of the Ching Dynasty. Orchid a beautifulseventeenyearold fro... » 

It is the final days of the Chinese Empire. Trade in opium with Europe isslowly corroding the power of the Ching Dynasty. Orchid a beautifulseventeenyearold from an aristocratic but impoverished family is pushed intothe maelstrom when she finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lowerranking concubine of the Emperor. The world inside the Forbidden City iserotically charged and highly ritualised but beneath its immaculate face liewhispers of murders and ghosts. The thousands of concubines will go to anylengths to bear the Emperor a son and become his Empress. Determined not to bea victim of the jealousies and foul play Orchid trains herself in the art ofpleasuring a man bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch.Little does she know that China will collapse around her and she will be itslast Empress.extSCBK2 «