Jean Kwok

2007. New York.
Fleeing from an abusive marriage in China, Jasmine arrives in New York City with hardly any support system of money or family. Her main purpose is to be reunited with her daughter, who, unknown to her, was taken away at birth and offered to an American couple for adoption. With her ex searching for her, Jasmine is running out of time to find her child and escape permanently. But how is she to do that?
Rebecca, an editor-in-chief at a publishing company, has it all – a job she loves, a talented and good-looking husband, a loveable adopted daughter Fifi, prestige, and wealth. However, her life suddenly seems to be on a downswing, with first her job and then her marriage in trouble. As the world around her begins to collapse, Rebecca knows she needs to save her family and her job at any cost. But how is she to do that?
The lives of these two women, as you might have guessed, are on a collision course, which forms the crux of the novel.
The story comes to us in the first person perspective of Jasmine and the third person perspective of Rebecca.