It begins when an old friend from a village deep within China's interior asks Beijing police detective Liu Hulan to find out the truth about her daughter's suspicious suicide. Hulan can't refuse--even though the case will take her deep into her own buried past, and into the heart of a dangerous mystery. The investigation will also bring her closer to her lover, American attorney David Stark, in a way neither can imagine, for it takes Hulan undercover in an American factory linked to David's new firm. To catch a killer, David and Hulan must decide whom to trust and where their greatest duty lies--dangerous decisions that could cost them their love and their lives....