Jade Lee - The Concubine

“I meant what I said,” Bo Tao murmured as he twisted her to rest flush against his body.

“Yes,” she murmured, growing more distracted by the minute. “Mama will make an excellent assistant.”

Bo Tao pulled her face to his. “I meant what I said about you. You are beautiful and brilliant, and I am the most fortunate of husbands.”

Warmth flooded her heart. “I love you,” she said as she pressed her lips to his.

“And I love you,” he answered. “Plus, I am the most fortunate of husbands for another reason entirely.”

“Oh?” she asked as he pushed her backward against the wall.

“The English ambassador is not due for another hour.”

She giggled as her husband began to touch her in ways that only he knew, taking her to places they could only find together. Then, just before she completely surrendered to his caress, she realized something enormous.

She had won! She wasn’t empress of China, but she had won something much more important: the love of a good man. And that, she decided was a far, far better prize.

Children of mixed races have their own set of rules. As the daughter of a Shanghai native and a staunch Indiana Hoosier, USA TODAY bestselling author Jade Lee struggled to find her own identity somewhere between the U.S.A. and China. In the end, she found her answers in writing fiction about the amazing power of love.