EMPRESS ORCHID - 4 AUDIO CDS READ BY PIK-SEN LIM

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine, she enters the ritualised Forbidden City and is exposed to all the chaos, corruption and treachery of the final days of the Chinese empire.