An Ning, author of The Warm Cord, spent six years crafting this new romance classic, capturing the meetings and partings of a glittering age. She gave her heart without reservation, while his love life seemed destined to be one farewell after another. Until he was willing to lay a trap, weaving a net that left her caught in his carefully constructed cage. In her youth, she walked into the scheme he had devised to win over allies and defeat his enemies. As layer upon layer of tangled secrets and startling truths unfolded before her, she finally realized that it was not that he had hidden too much, but that she had taken too long to grow up. She gave her heart without reservation, while his love life seemed destined to be one farewell after another. Until he was willing to lay a trap, weaving a net that left her caught in his carefully constructed cage. Public and private interests leave them in an impossible bind; in a glittering age, people meet and part. As one tangled, sinister truth after another comes to light, who can share another's fate?
