Once Our Lives is the true story of four generations of Chinese women
and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient
traditions, historic upheavals, and a man whose fate - cursed by an
ancient superstition - dramatically altered their destinies. The book
takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets,
lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a
desperate flight from death in the desert - seen through the eyes of a
man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautiful girl
with three identities.