Dr. Shawn Hua is a world-renowned scientist with expertise in infertility, artificial insemination, and in vitro fertilization. As a professor, he should know better than to get involved with a woman twenty-five years his junior, but René Müller tempts him into crossing all the lines.
In the middle of a brutal divorce from his wife of nearly forty years, Shawn finds comfort in this new affair. He has met René under special circumstances, and he throws himself into helping her. She is a German American journalist of Chinese descent who is on a quest to find her true identity. They travel through Hong Kong and Taiwan in search of her biological parents, whom René never got the chance to meet. Along the way, they fall hopelessly in love. Then they discover that René's parents died tragically in a plane crash when she was a baby.
When they rifle through files looking for more information, the lovers soon learn the most shocking detail of all: an incident from Shawn's past has jeopardized their chances for a happy future together. Although their lives will never be the same, the lesson learned about genuine love will follow them forever.
About the Author: Hon K. Poon, MD, FACS, is the author of the novel Yulan: The Jade Orchid, a story of love between spies set in China in World War II, as well as Journal of a Country Surgeon, a memoir that details his experiences working as a surgeon in rural America. He also has written a number of works in the Chinese language, which have been published in Taiwan and Beijing.
Born in Hong Kong to a Chinese family in 1946, Dr. Poon immigrated to the United States in the seventies. In the United States, he studied to become a general surgeon and worked in private practice in Arkansas for thirty years. Now retired, he lives with his family in Las Vegas.
