title: China Silk
author: Worboys, Anne
description: A young and impressionable London debutante, Hellen North, departs for her wedding in Hong Kong, where her fiance's family wields great power. Already worried that the family will not accept her, she becomes caught between her passion for a young government official stationed in Hong Kong. She falls prey to the evil George Curtain and the persuasions of her cunning uncle, while she struggles to adjust to her new life in the East, where passions seethe and intrigue simmers.