La fille de l'Empereur en français....J’ai découvert Jeannie Lin par hasard avec Princesse Impériale qui fut un pur plaisir de lecture, dépaysant avec un contexte historique rare dans les romances historiques actuelles, des personnages avec une véritable profondeur, de l’action et une intrigue bi...
The research that Jeannie Lin does for her books is incredible and makes the reader feel as if they could be part of the story. Characters were true to life and the plot well placed in the realm of the setting. The story gives the reader a glimpse of a time that we could very well have lived ours...
The sort of meaningless flirtation he’d engaged in many times over. She would slap him afterwards, as he deserved, but it would be worth it. He hadn’t counted on his hunger at the first taste of her. Or her willing response.Too sweet for words.Ailey forged ahead, bundling up her thick braid to sh...
He pulled the paper from its sleeve and unfolded it. The first line took him by surprise. My family married me, Bai Shen wrote passionately, to the other side of heaven. That incorrigible bastard. Not a single word was Bai Shen’s. He’d copied Prince...
Pretending to be a princess wasn’t any hardship. Dao hadn’t grown up in a palace, dressed in silk and jewels. She didn’t miss her cot in the Chang family’s servant quarters. Now there were no more clothes to mend, floors to sweep, chamber pots to empty. The only thing required of her was that she...
He was left wondering whether she’d only accompanied him because he was noble-born and wealthy enough that she was obligated to defer to him. He hoped it wasn’t true. He was growing rather fond of her honesty. He was so used to lies that his time with Yue-ying seemed like the only real conversati...
Yao, the Empress’s eunuch, held the knife to Suyin’s throat with more viciousness than any man.‘Do you understand, whore?’ The high pitch of his speech chilled her spine.She gave the tiniest of nods, biting her lip to hold back a sob of fear. Two months in Changan and she already knew the palace ...
Luo Cheng turned his back on the chorus of cries and the rosy glow of the lanterns that swung over the doorway of the drinking house. The entreaties from his fellow scholars were well-meaning enough, but the pleas to stay and be sociable quickly died away, fading behind gales of laughter and caro...
Chen had sought her out. For the last three months, she and Father had lived far away from the main roads and cities of the province. It was safer that way. She didn’t know where Ru Shan was either. That was also safer. If Chen had found and challenged Ru Shan, she didn’t know what she would do. ...
The first was to stay close. “And don’t trust anyone,” Chang-wei warned. The perils must have been real. He actually held a hand to the small of my back as we moved through the market area near the docks. “We must go to the a...
Amidst the startled cries of her attendants, the enclosure lurched again before crashing to the ground with the splintering crack of wood. She gasped as the elaborate headdress toppled from her lap and she was thrown from her seat. A tight knot formed in her stomach, and she fought to stay calm. ...
Her blue robe inevitably drew his eye amid the brown and gray of the city street. She had been in his mind constantly, ever since that damned kiss that he wasn’t supposed to think too much about. There was a bit of sorcery in how she appeared before him now. &n...
He reached for his sword. “Who are you?” he demanded. Seeing his movement, the bodyguard Yoshiro reached for his sword as well. I threw myself between Chang-wei and the Japanese swordsmen, though my weapons were useless in this standoff. ...