Olejar Books

The Russian Concubine is a great story of love, loss and conflicting loyalties in a fascinatingly precarious moment of history Dana Gabaldon, ather of the Outlander serie 1928. Euled from Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, the beautiful and fiery Lydia and her aristocratic mother, Valentina, have taken refuge in Junchow, China. With destitution looming, Lydia realises that she must use her wits to survive and resorts to stealing.
When a valuable ruby necklace goes missing, Chang An lo, a handsome Chinese youth who is under threat from troops hunting down Communists, saves her from certain death. Thrust into clashes with the savage triads of Junchow and the Strictures of the white colonial settlement, Lydia and Chang fall in love and are swept up in a fierce fight against prejudice and shame. Forced to face opium-running, betrayal and kidnap, their compelling attraction to each other is tested to the limits.