From China With Love

by Carris Carlisle, Margaret Pemberton

Olivia Harland is enjoying a prolonged stay with her aunt and uncle in the Western Hills outside of Peking. It is 1900 and the air is heavy with Chinese Boxers who are obsessed with driving the Europeans from China. Adam Ross is a doctor in the remote Northern Provinces. His Chinese wife has been brutally murdered during a savage Boxer attack, and he is leaving Peking after depositing his baby son there for safety. As he departs, Olivia rides out into the Western Hills to contemplate a proposal of marriage from handsome young diplomat Phillippe Casanaeve, and it is then that the Boxers attack. . .It is Adam who saves Olivia's life, but the danger is not yet over as they make their way through dangerous country to Peking. Olivia falls in love with Adam, but believes that his wife is still alive; meanwhile in Peking, Phillippe is waiting for Olivia. . .

Hardcover

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Margaret A. Hudson was born on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK, of German extraction. She was daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect. Married with Londoner Mike Pemberton, they have five grown children, today she lives with her husband and four small dogs in Whitstable, Kent. Apart from writing, her passions are tango, travel, English history and the English countryside.

Published since 1975, she is a bestselling romance writer as Margaret Pemberton, and under the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle; Maggie Hudson and Rebecca Dean. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in different parts of the world. She was the fifteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989-1991), she has also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.