Pirouettes of Fate, Steps of Love

The money for school had to come from somewhere. Mona Doyle's mother died when she was small, and she worked part-time jobs to cover the fees. One night she came out on the wrong floor of a building and spent it with Horace Boyd, who comes from one of the powerful families in Beijing. She got pregnant from that night. She gave up ballet, left school and took work to support the child, and her father and stepmother broke off contact with her over it. Horace spent that time looking for her without knowing who she was. Eight months on, her own family moved against her, and Horace got her out and brought her into the Boyd house.