Spice
February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Featuring: Katie O'Roarke; Shintaro
352 pages ISBN: 0373605404 EAN: 9780373605408 Trade Size Add to Wish List
I arrived in Japan a virgin bride,
heartsick and anxious beyond measure. Yet I embraced this
perplexing world with my soul laid bare after uncovering an
erotic, intoxicating power I hardly knew that I, Katie
O'Roarke, possessed.
Japan was a world away from my
tedious Western existence, a welcome distraction from my
recent marriage to a cold and cruel husband. But when James
attacked me in a drunken rage, I could tolerate it no
longer…. I had no choice but to escape into the surrounding
hills. I awoke in the arms of Akira, a young Samurai, and it
was he who took me to Shintaro, the head of the powerful
Samurai clan.
At first distrustful, Shintaro came to
me every day for a fortnight until my need for him made my
heart race at the very sound of his feet upon the wooden
floor. He taught me the way of the Samurai—loyalty, honor,
self-respect—and the erotic possibilities of inner beauty
unleashed. It is his touch that shatters my virginal
reserve, evoking danger and physical pleasures that linger
beyond our fervent encounters. But James means to find me,
to make me pay for his humiliation. I can no longer hide
amongst the orange blossoms as rebellions rage, and as my
own secret continues to grow….