The history of the legendary Wong Ru dress shop and Screaming Blackbird, the mystical Chinese silk, moves forward, almost to the present day. Book One, A Well Kept Secret, began in 1940. The four stories contained in Book Four cover roughly forty years, starting around 1980. Each story presents a different view of a fascinating subject, the interplay between clothes, sensuality, and sexual desire, as well as the ways women with unusual sexual interests struggle to find happiness.
The stories take place in Hawaii and Japan. Woven into them are many details about places and culture that bring the stories to life. In the end you will undoubtedly wish they were real.