I grew up in Singapore in a very traditional Chinese household, where boys were treasured but female children were considered to be of little value.

After I moved to England and had my memoir published, I believed I had fulfilled my writing aspirations. Years later I decided to write a story about a young girl who uses her extraordinary talent for combat in the pursuit of justice and retribution.

I live in London, where I spend my time writing and enjoying the company of the wildlife feeding in my garden.

Young Myeli with her family and the enigmatic Chrysanthemum Society embark on a journey from China to Malaya, a colony of the British Empire, bringing with them some of the lost treasure of the First Emperor of China.

They settle in the new land unaware that Jen, a man consumed by bitterness and greed, having spent decades roaming China in search of the lost treasure, has tracked them down. He worms his way into the society by inveigling himself into the confidence of their ageing leader; until finally, he stands poised to claim the prize.

But Myeli and her brother Kwai, a firebrand fuelled by loyalty and love, refuse to stand idly by. Their defiance sets them on a collision course with Jen and his partners in crime Carl Morgan and James Pennyfellow.

Jen contracts a legendary assassin; the one who wields the ancient sword of his ancestors Bringer of Death.

Carl Morgan, a sadistic sexual predator cloaked in respectability and colonial authority, turns his morbid desires to Kwai's beloved Xenia and lures her to his remote prison island in the Andaman Sea.

Pitted against a triumvirate of ruthless villains who have almost limitless resources of men and materials at their disposal, and with the fate of her family, Xenia's freedom, and the Chrysanthemum Society's legacy at stake, the warrior calligrapher Myeli stands at the precipice as she prepares to unleash the fury of a dragon awakening, ready to reclaim her destiny and rewrite the ending of this saga.