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Dear Reader,

Capturing the Silken Thief was inspired, surprisingly, by my time as a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Everyone was filled with such hope for the future and all things were possible.

The many late nights and that restless energy of those college years fed into my vision of what the North Hamlet in Changan must have been like during the 9^th century. Scholars and beautiful courtesans and song girls intermingled. The drinking and music would continue late into the night.

One of the most popular short stories of the Tang Dynasty tells of a romance between a scholar and a song girl. Capturing the Silken Thief revives this classic pairing and it was a refreshing change for me to write a different sort of hero from my usual swordsmen. I hope you’ll find this distant land and the characters that inhabit it not as foreign as they at first appear to be.

More historical background and information on my stories can be found online at http://www.jeannielin.com. I love hearing from readers!