A base on a true event in asian history, set in a period of intense conflict. This is a fiction story base on the historical event of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, gruesomly known as the Rape of Nanking. One astonishing heroine emerges, an American missionary and teacher arrived to save souls, but instead at great peril, she saves the lives of more than 10,000 women and girls. Beautiful written but be warn, set during war and an invasion be prepair for violence, death, rape, and crude scene. Has creases on spine and cover from reading no damage.