One of Catherine Coulter's favorite new writers makes a breathtaking debut-with the first novel in a bold new trilogy filled with modern-day passions and criminal desire... While in Paris, Valence St. Charles, an expert on antique Asian swords, inadvertently saves the lives of the reclusive collector T'ang Jian-Shan and his daughter. Now, caught between a Chinese tong's assassins and government agents, Jian-Shan and Val have nowhere to turn but towards each other, as each clash of wills threatens to erupt in a moment of searing heat-and blinding passion...