Models: Winter Jade & Rob Piper The master of the house stood naked at the foot of the bed watching his new lover emerge from the husk of her old body like a butterfly from a chrysalis. Most of those whose souls he burned panicked or screamed as they transformed. But the slim thirty-something woman whom Fan-Ah had guided into his chambers tonight simply lay sprawled on his bed, staring

Pausing, Owen was briefly taken aback by the huge gothic door. In the fading evening light, it was lit by a wrought-iron lantern hung from the top and looked straight from one of the medieval forts or castles back home in England. Though it may have looked at home there, it was the last thing he had expected to find here in the heart of Beijing. In a city all