Pearl of the Orient Books in Order

Merchant Teng Lee seeks wealth and freedom amid British and Dutch rivalry in Southeast Asia. Meeting Stamford Raffles and exploiting Elizabeth Blaine's abduction offers opportunity, but personal attachments complicate his calculations during Singapore's emergence in the nineteenth century.

Escaping execution near India, Irish fugitive Michael Harrington seeks a new life that eventually takes him through Singapore to China. Love, the opium trade, and political upheaval entangle him in conflicts where loyalties become dangerously uncertain.

Larry Cairns travels to Singapore to build a trading career and befriends Chung Kai. His love for Kai's sister Lan challenges colonial racial conventions, while ambition and the growing threat of Japanese invasion complicate the future he hopes to secure.

Pirates capture Elizabeth Blaine and Clive Hammond during a voyage toward Penang. On Singapura, their lives intersect with pirate ruler Perak Shah and ambitious merchant Teng Lee, drawing love and personal freedom into a struggle over fortune and power.