This is an exciting novel set in China at the turn of the last century about a fourteen year old girl called Ko-Chin, who is married off in an arranged marriage.

She's been taught to obey her husband and be a good and dutiful wife.

But her husband is a reformer who believes she should think for herself.

Soon they are both caught up in a rebellion, and Ko-Chin has to decide between her old traditions and the new western ways.

It combines historical accuracy with a fast-moving and exciting plot.