Petals from the sky -fiction literature-

When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - 'no freedom, no love, no meat'. But to Meng Ning, it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents' unhappy union.

Petals on the River

A proud and spirited woman whose life was stolen from her. . . A man of secrets accused of a terrible crime. . . In a place of new beginnings their destinies are joined--in a gloriously romantic new work from the incomparable storyteller.