Dr John William Schaefer finally came to the end of his residency and accepted a job at the University Hospital, with a side job at Rest Haven, following his geriatric interests. Mag Gaines headed the records department at the hospital, and John William was in love with her, never thinking that she had her eye on him too.
When Shanghai lawyer Wang Bao tore the virginity of half-English, half-Chinese fourteen-year-old orphan Ryan Hathaway from the boy when his parents' vessel capsized on the Yangtze River and then seized the boy's inheritance as well and sold him to a Chinese brothel, he thought he had covered all of his bases. Little did he know what could come back to bite him hard.
Haruko is envious of Yumi's place on the swim team and she decides to join as well. She did not expect the initiation rites that went with her joining the club and she does the best she can to survive the ordeal.