Love of a Peranakan Girl (en Inglés) - Mah Yoke Tong

Young Adult Historical Romance
Singapore, 1935-1937

Will Benson is twenty-six, adrift, and suffocating under his father's expectations. Sent to Singapore to secure rubber contracts for the family trading business, he's running from a life he doesn't want. But when Will contracts malaria during an upriver plantation tour, his British colleagues abandon him-leaving him sick, alone, and delirious in a foreign city.

Xiao Mee is twenty, wealthy, and trapped. As the only daughter of a prominent Peranakan family, her future has been planned since birth: marry Peng Huat, a respectable Baba merchant, and secure her family's business alliance. When Xiao Mee finds Will collapsed outside her family's shophouse, she makes a choice that could ruin her reputation: she brings him inside and nurses him back to health.

Over three weeks of fever, quinine, and Nyonya soup, something unexpected happens. They fall in love.

But 1930s Singapore is not kind to interracial romance. The British look down on both of them. Will's colleagues warn him against "going native." Xiao Mee's family has arranged her marriage in three months. And in the distance, war drums beat.

Will must choose: return to Brooklyn and the life his father planned, or stay in Singapore for a woman he's known for three weeks?

Xiao Mee must choose: honor her family's wishes and marry Peng Huat, or follow her heart and risk losing everything-her family, her reputation, her home?