Anna's Story
For over a century in England the Lanciens and the Carnies were rival shipping merchants and opium smugglers.  Now Anna Lancien felt the feud had dies down because her father lived in far-off, exotic Macao and was a respectable dealer in silks and jades.

She did not know that the Carnies held her father responsible for the disappearance of seven legendary gold lanterns--one that Anna herself had as a keepsake.  Nor did she know--when she stowed aboard a clipper ship bound for Macao--that the captain was Charles Carnie, a devilishly handsome rogue determined to wed and bed Anna.