White Tigress by Jade Lee, historical interracial romance, 1st in The Way of the Tigress series @
iTunes (available to Canadians).
This is an ex-Dorchester book which was an
official freebie a couple of years ago before they collapsed. Lee is also a Harlequin author.
Englishwoman Lydia Smith sailed to the Orient seeking her fiancé and found treachery, instead.
In seedy Shanghai, she is drugged, sold, and made a slave—to a dark-eyed dragon of a man. Her captor does not demand her virginity but her Yin—the essence of her ecstasy.
What harm can come from allowing him to pleasure her, to teach her, to explore the path of becoming the White Tigress, until she can flee?
I'll have to try the Connolly series. With a bunch of books focusing on the same couple, hopefully they'll spread out the relationship drama instead of concentrating it all in the single allotted volume, and have some good historical mystery plots as well.