Four-Part Setting

Fleeing from her failed marriage, Rose Pelham seeks sanctuary in Peking, China, with her cousins, Anastasia and Antony Lydiard. The romantic attentions of Captain Hargreaves are a welcome distraction from her woes, but in the society of Anglicised 1920''s Peking, it is hard for such relationships not to draw notice and create scandal.
A long trek to the ''Mountain of a Hundred Flowers'' offers ...