The latest book from author Mingmei Yip takes
the reader on an epic journey — both emotional and geographically. The Nine Fold Heaven is the story of a young Chinese woman,
Camilla who is taken from an orphanage at the age of four, and forced to work
for one of the worst gangs in Shanghai. Not that she has a bad life with them.
In exchange for her various “services” to the gang, from sexual favors to singing
entertainment to assassinations, she is well taken care of, as least in
material objects. Her emotional life however, has been completely deprived and
suffocated.
Camilla’s
emotions refused to be suppressed, and love finds a way through the darkness.
After taking a lover she gives birth to a son, and the small seed of emotion,
feelings and love that had sprouted were now in full bloom. She escapes her
“gilded cage” only to return and fight for her child.
The
journey she takes will leave the reader breathless, in tears, and cheering her
on. Camilla will do whatever is necessary to free her child from the