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Home Author Archive For Librarians Authors: Get Included Mingmei Yip Dear Reader, Petals from the Sky is a moving love story about a young, aspiring Buddhist nun set in Hong Kong, Manhattan and Paris. It follows the success of my debut novel Peach Blossom Pavilion, story of the last Chinese Geisha. This poignant story is inspired by my own life growing up with Buddhist nuns. Meng Ning attends a Buddhist retreat eager to begin a life of cultivating good karma by meditating to suppress desire and to develop wisdom and compassion. Instead, her sensuality is aroused for the first time when a fire breaks out and she is rescued by an American doctor. This unexpected intimacy with an exotic, handsome stranger forces her to decide between a life of non-attachment and one of passion. Meng Ning's life becomes even more complicated when her nun mentor attempts to lure her back to the temple just after Meng Ning meets the doctor's sinister former fiancée and is nearly seduced by his gorgeous best friend. Please write me at mingmeiyip@aol.com to win one of five copies of PETALS FROM THE SKY. Visit www.mingmeiyip.com for excerpts, reviews, trailers, readers' guide, my other novel and children's book. Mingmei Yip TOP OF PAGE BACK TO MAIN PAGE © 2005 by AuthorBuzz