SUMMARY

Chapter 1. DAWN IN BANGKOK
Hu was seventeen and a good student. She studied at the Bangkok Internacional Academy, an international school for the children of foreign people working in Thailand. It was expensive, but the Chinese oil company, where her father worked, helped her family to pay for her education.
Hu liked to work hard, but she was worried about her studies, about her English exam. Today Mr Stanyer, her English teacher, would give out the results of last term’s English test.

Chapter 2. NEW TERM, OLD FRIENDS
Hu walked up the narrow Soi to school. She felt happy and excited. The early morning sun was bright. It almost hurt her eyes. It was cool and the skies were blue and clean.
The school principal, Mr Grisman, …ver más…

Chapter 11. A WAY OUT?
Hu could feel him looking at her. It was still dark. Her leg hurt and she wanted to move Marwa, who was still sleeping. It was cold too. Hu was hungry. The fire was finished. Silence said Hu, Don’t wake Marwa, Sean. He spoke softly in Chinese. I just wanted to explain. I don’t believe this stuff about Declan Stanyer. I know his game. Sean sat closer to her.

Chapter 12. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Hu and John met in the library after lunch. Hu couldn’t help crying. But Hu, I knew Stanyer was asking a lot for his private lessons. But you sold your Aunty’s ring. Miss Paula looked over her glasses and coughed quietly. She was very worried about Hu. Since she had come back from the field trip she had seemed unhappy.

Chapter 13. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
In an office in the Upper School building, Verity Truman was sitting, staring at her telephone. Meanwhile, in another part of the school, Hu and her mother and father were waiting outside the principal’s office. They could hear voices from inside. Hu and her mother and father said nothing.

Chapter 14. A PATH TO THE FUTURE
Mr Stanyer asked for permission to work in Thailand about three months. Hu's