QUOTE : I never left, Juliette wanted to say, but that wasn’t true. Her mind had remained here—her thoughts<br />had constantly revolved around the chaos and the injustice and the burning fury that broiled in these<br />streets—but her physical body had been shipped across the ocean a second time for safekeeping. She had<br />hated it, hated being away so intensely that she felt the force of it burn into a fever each night when she<br />left the parties and speakeasies. The weight of Shanghai was a steel crown nailed to her head. In another<br />world, if she had been given a choice, perhaps she would have walked away, rejected herself as the heir to<br />an empire of mobsters and merchants. But she never had a choice. This was her life, this was her city,<br />these were her people, and because she loved them, she had sworn to herself a long time ago that she<br />would do a damn good job of being who she was because she could be no one else