The cloud leopard's daughter
By: Deborah Challinor
Series: The smuggler's wife series -- Book 4
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781460751572
Subjects: Kidnapping; Fiction; Gold and gold mining; Historical fiction
Description: When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III into Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The new Otago goldfields have attracted all-comers, including their friend Wong Fu from Ballarat, who has sent a message for their help. To their surprise, Wong Fu reveals he is more than a mere fortune seeker - he is in fact a Cloud Leopard tong master and his daughter, Bao, has been kidnapped and taken to opium-ridden China. Kitty and Rian agree to retrieve the missing Bao, but as they sail closer to their quarry the stakes jump dramatically. And little do they know that the deadliest threat lies in their midst. The Cloud's Leopard's Daughter takes us through dangerous and unpredictable shoals of love, lust, greed and opium, in search of not one, but two, fiery yet vulnerable women - puppets in other people's calculated games.