Publisher: Loose Id
ISBN eBook: N/A
Genre: M/M; Historical
Length: Novella
Release Date: July 7, 2009
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In seventeenth century Japan, during the golden age of samurai and of the Kabuki theater, young actors known as “flying fish” travelled the countryside, performing for audiences by day and giving their bodies to their samurai patrons at night. Genji Sakura is one such flying fish, yet he dreams of the day he’ll find the man he can give his heart to and leave the loneliness of his itinerant life behind. Though he loves theater, he doesn’t love every part of his profession. So when a handsome ronin, or masterless samurai, comes upon him stealing some solitude for a bath in a hot spring, Genji doesn’t expect the afternoon of passionate eroticism he’s given.
For a moment, Genji believes he’s found the man he can surrender to, yet Daisuke Minamoto is a man with darkness haunting him, a past bitterness that grips his soul and makes him dangerous. Minamoto, too, is surprised by his own passion that takes him when he spies on the graceful young man bathing naked in a hot spring. His heart and soul are tormented and torn, for keeping this miraculous lover will require giving up the one thing that has kept him alive for years: his hatred for the lord who murdered his wife. Will he be able to make the sacrifice or will he destroy his own life and take Genji down with him?
