When renowned art history professor Miki Ai'Lee returns home to Hawaii after 12 years, she runs into her first love, Alex, who bears scars he is unwilling to explain. He tracks art and temple thieves in the steamy jungles of Southeast Asia. She thrives in the high-society glamour of art collectors. Now her grandmother is ready to share their family's darkest secret, if only Miki will listen. When the old world of tradition and the new world of opportunity collide-forcing Miki to choose between the man she loves and the heritage that holds her-she finds that the whispers of tradition are once...

In the early 1900s Woody grew up running barefoot in the lush valleys of Territorial Hawaii. From camping at Kailua Beach with his buddies to raising his family, he's immersed in the dynamic changes of the Paradise of the Pacific. As he approaches ninety he insists he's too busy to die. A tale told within tales with photos of Old Hawaii, signature dishes, and unforgettable dreams, Pam Chun's lyrical memoir of her father describes their bond across time and distance. He wails at aging. She's frustrated by caring for him from 3,000 miles away, relatives who don't agree on his care, don't...

Robert Fortune detests the Celestial Kingdom and its people the minute he lands in China after the devastating Opium Wars in 1843. Under the guise of a plant hunter for the British Horticultural Society, his secret mission is to steal China's secrets of tea production, a brazen act of industrial espionage that will devastate China's 5,000-year-old civilization. He audaciously ventures into prohibited lands to collect flowers, plants, seeds, and birds. Seduced by the Flowery Land, he pursues exquisitely beautiful Jadelin from the House of Poe, unaware she is trained as a warrior as is everyone...