Trigrams: Book Three of the Dragon's Wake Trilogy

Jealousy, envy, love and competition operate between four talented teen-aged sisters of the Lee family in 1940's Shanghai. When the communists take over China the Lees flee to Korea, a land they have never seen. Within months the Korean War begins and they are swept into its maelstrom.

Enduring forced labor and the threat of violent death, they become homeless refugees, ultimately separating to seek refuge in the distant south.

Ai-li, seventeen, narrates in her young girl's voice her family's struggles to prevail against fierce passions within and beyond their family, including rape, betrayal, infidelity, revenge, political intrigue and murder.