Alanna/Introduction

Alanna Grey-Woodville is the product of a union between one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished families, and one of Hong Kong's wealthiest and most successful. Charles Grey-Woodville was still in his 20s -- and notorious for his drug addiction, drinking, and petty crime -- when he married married Li Wai-kuen, the granddaughter of a real-estate tycoon. Wai-kuen would die less than a year later giving birth to their only child, but her family's money would keep Charles in Cristal and ecstasy for most of the next decade.