Mòshēng rén ; Stranger

Jael Doran has finally saved up enough to rent her own little one room studio in the western suburbs of Sydney. Next year she might even be able to afford to travel to the one place she has always wanted to go.... China, their stories and folktales have been her best friends since childhood. Oh the wonders they held. Jael's new neighbour, an old man who lives alone and smells of chamomile tea, dusty books and candles, would now read her a new story every night. The arrangement was his idea upon her moving in but Jael has begun to be infatuated with his gift for storytelling. One night as Faramund reads one of her new favourites, she falls asleep with a chamomile tea in her hands, and wakes up on the steps of the Palace in Northern Qi China around 560 AD. All she knew becomes irrelevant as the 19 year old Australian girl is thrown from 2020 into Imperial China when the Northern Qi Dynasty is full of politics, war and romance, leaving behind her dull reality. But will this lead to her freedom, demise, or something else entirely? And can she find a way back?