From A Far Land

Description for FROM A FAR LAND by Robert Elegant: Shanghai 1921:  a paradise for reckless adventurers, a melting pot of race, greed, and deadly intrigue.  Into this simmering city come two remarkable young women, who have sailed from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where they have just graduated from college.  For Chinese student Emily Howe, now accustomed to Western ways, it is a difficult homecoming.  But for Julia Pavernen, a beautiful headstrong American, it is love at first sight:  love for a land of exotic contracts, and love for Tommy Howe, Emily's brother, who is caught up in the seething turmoil of revolution. As China bares her dragon's teeth and breathes the fire of independence, their lives will change forever.  Across thirty tumultuous years, they will be players in the towering events that shape history.  Until, in the cataclysmic birth of a modern nation, they too will discover the greatness of their pride, their purpose, and their passions.