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The adored adopted child of a stoic immigrant couple, corporate lawyer, Natalie (Nata) Dreyer, is beautiful, ambitious, talented and successful. She has achieved all that her father drove her to strive for, and when she marries the rich and charming Karl Albrecht, it appears her dream future is assured. But Nata's adoptive parents are keeping a secret.

An unplanned pregnancy presents challenges for Nata and the narcissistic husband who has been raised to demand perfection in every aspect of life. The premature birth of a son after an accident almost destroys them both.

Karl has...

Tom Kwok writes, at the end of his memoir: ''I wrote, last night, to thank my father for my life. I told him how, to trick the evil spirits, my family gave me a girl's name. They called me Loo Shang, a name that meant 'the way to get riches'.''

In 1950, Chairman Mao's Communist Party confiscated the Kwok family's land to give to village peasants. His family fled to Hong Kong, where his mother worked thirteen days each fortnight to earn the meagre income that sustained them. He hardly knew his mother, but he has her and his paternal grandmother to thank for the opportunity to...