When the inheritance is devastatingly lost, what’s left of the Cheng legacy? Phoenixa, sole heir of a noble clan a century in the making, confronts this fate as a young woman in pursuit of a forbidden dream, the American dream. Gone was the wide-eyed girl who once rode on the tail of a kite; Phoenixa now stood at the edge of a towering plane, a passport in one hand and her grandfather’s teachings folded quietly into the lining of her soul. Soon, vanished were the grey, weathered tiles of her childhood courtyard; emerged was a glittering skyline of concrete towers, shimmering with promise and allure. Oh, the lure of youth! It came like a summer storm, sudden, electric, and impossible to escape…