A heartfelt journey through grief and desire in the glittering Jazz Age International Settlement. Set against the glittering volatility of interwar Shanghai, BUBBLING WELL ROAD is a story of grief, duty, and the desires that quietly undo us. When Alice boards a ship bound for the International Settlement, she is running from one kind of heartache and, unwittingly, sailing straight into another. When three very different lives become irrevocably entangled, the cost of doing the right thing begins to rise. Beneath the brittle facade of a city known as the Paris of the Orient, loyalties fracture and a principled man finds himself drawn towards a woman he has no right to desire. The expatriate world pulses with Jazz Age glamour, trying to ignore the growing political tensions beyond their gates. No one who arrives will leave entirely unchanged. For readers who love the restrained heartbreak of Kazuo Ishiguro or the atmospheric precision of Kate Quinn, this is literary fiction at its most elegant and most devastating. When a post-war reckoning finally arrives, the cost of silence becomes impossible to ignore. This is end of empire storytelling at its most intimate. If you are drawn to stories of yearning and loss that linger long after the final page, this is the novel you have been waiting for. Get your copy today.