The Rouge Ledger

A young woman is beaten and left for dead by the men who run Shanghai's docks, and a painter offers her the only thing that can save her: a new face. The price is that she must learn to use it, reading what men want and giving them just enough to incriminate themselves. / She enters the city's gambling houses and trading companies as a widow, a client, a confidante. Every ledger she copies brings her closer to He Jiu, the man who ordered her death. But the face she wears is not the only thing that can betray her, and the painter's price has not been named yet.