Jade Flower (A New Adult Travel Memoir)
ReynoldsAJ
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ReynoldsAJ
Ongoing, First published Mar 07, 2020
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When Anna moves to China without the approval of friends or family, she goes from recent graduate to language teacher in a country in which she knows nothing and no one. As she overcomes culture shock and gets used to being illiterate, her explorations take her to the eastern start of the Great Wall, densely-populated chaotic cities, serene mountaintop temples of silent monks and former pleasure palaces of emperors. But she wants to learn more, to understand, to go deeper. It is only in the Chinese nightclubs, where she becomes Cui Hua, or Jade Flower, a stage dancer, that she finds what she didn't know she was searching for: self-acceptance,  self-confidence and eventually, herself.

Dear Potential Reader,
This is my memoir of my time in China in my early twenties in 2006-2007, before there was a fence all the way along the North Korean border. It is generally true, although names and some events have been fictionalized, and some conversations and situations recreated from diary entries and vague, hazy memories of them. I hope you enjoy it! 
Kind regards,
AJ
All Rights Reserved
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SAVING LOVE:Book 1 of The Padmore Tower series

74 parts Complete Mature

"You don't want me..." I breathed, selfishly leaning into his touch. But I quickly pull away. "I'm different and so not your type," I muttered, looking everywhere else but at him. He frowns slightly, eyes simmering. "God, Anna." He exhaled, cool breath brushing my skin. " I've always wanted you. from the beginning. since the first moment, I saw you." He said, almost sounding painful. Michael gently cups my cheek with one hand and thumbs my bottom lip, and my heartbeat picks up. *** With the past years of a rough childhood, for 24-year-old Anna, Family, reading--the ocean, and her love for her job as a nurse--are everything. For 27-year-old Michael Padmore,--it was all about getting even with his father and his position as the CEO of the Vitality Tower. the past traumas of his childhood still haunts his heart driving him to unsatisfactory with everything he's accumulated. he finds himself choosing his work over his family. A year into their marriage, life's threatening obstacles are determined to pull them apart. He had her, he lost her and now after discovering truths from the past, he will do anything by to get her back. will the two fight for their love, or will it crumble with the lies and betrayal it started with? Will love conquer, rekindled or will it burn down to cinders? Trigger warning: Mature content, explicit adult scenes, violence, abuse, obsession. This book centers on family, drama, laughter, and sweet & heart-wrenching moments and is told through the heroine's eyes. Tag along, on this journey of love, deceit, and betrayal. The story just began...uncover it.

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