Her Angel Eyes - The Story of an Afghan Girl

Mark is a handsome and well-liked pediatric surgeon. More than anything, he wants to settle down and raise a family, but he hasn't been successful in finding the right woman. When he meets Sara, though, he is instantly taken with her. As their romance blossoms, Mark and Sara discover a love for each other that is stronger than anything either of them has felt before. But when a woman from Mark's past comes to him with shocking news, he finds himself torn between following his heart and doing what he feels is right. Sara struggles to understand Mark's situation, but she soon has her own startling news to deal with.

Both Mark and Sara have to decide what is most important to them and redefine their relationship if they hope to find their way back to each other again-or risk losing what they have forever.

There isn't going to be a wedding. Marina lies dead, alone in her shiny status car in a suburban shopping center parking lot, her two-carat diamond engagement ring refracting another abruptly shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her death merely a carjacking gone bad? Or is there more to the story?

Marina's murder chillingly introduces Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond to a subculture of "parachute kids," the rich Asian teens who are left to their own devices in California while their parents live and work in Hong Kong. Seeking American education and political stability for their children, the affluent parents often leave only an elderly housekeeper in charge of their vulnerable offspring.

What was Marina's story? Why was she, at such a young age, marrying twenty-four-year-old Michael Ho? Why is Marina's father, banker Reginald Lu, so reluctant to provide information? As Eve delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding Marina's life and death, she stumbles upon a troubled world of unmoored youth and parental neglect.

But Marina, in many ways, would seem to have been among the fortunate. She had money and her parents had power. Eve soon discovers a dramatically more tragic subculture, where destitute young Asian immigrants live in virtual sexual slavery. The story of May-li and her journey from a poor farming home in Fujian, China, to a brothel in Los Angeles is one that Eve will fight to tell and will never forget.