White Tiger
Action, intrigue, demons and dragons Kylie Chan creates a fast and furious story balanced between the celestial and the mortal, the powerful and the innocent . . . Emma Donahoe has just started her new job as nanny to Simone, the daughter of John Chen, a very rich Hong Kong businessman. She...
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Action, intrigue, demons and dragons Kylie Chan creates a fast and furious story balanced between the celestial and the mortal, the powerful and the innocent . . . Emma Donahoe has just started her new job as nanny to Simone, the daughter of John Chen, a very rich Hong Kong businessman. She understands that Simone may be a target for kidnappers but she does not expect to be drawn into a world of martial arts, magic and extreme danger, where both gods and demons can exist in the mortal domain. When John and his American bodyguard, Leo, teach Emma their particular style of martial arts, they begin to realize that Emma herself is more than she seems . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061994050 (0061994057)
Publish date: August 30th 2011
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Pages no: 499
Edition language: English
Series: Dark Heavens (#1)
A young woman accepts a job as the nanny in the household of a chinese businessman and she realises that there are things unspoken that are important. It turns out that the chinese businessman is one of the chinese gods and that demons are looking to kill him. To help she has to embrace this world ...
This book was a total surprise! I picked it up when Borders was closing because I liked the cover. I never even read the back of the book so the fact that the main character was female came as a surprise as I fully expected it to be a man.Emma Donahoe is an Australian transplant in Hong Kong teachi...
Very fun read, I love the play between Leo and Emma.
How can I describe the sense of wonder I experienced when I finished this book? I can not. This was a wonderful, glorious journey, but this book is not for everyone.I think that people who like me grew up on enormous amount of Hong Kong movies will love it. People who went to Asia and saw with their...