Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must unravel the mystery of her own origins – a mystery that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for ‘love’. As civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Black Ships have arrived from the West, bringing foreigners eager to add Japan to their colonial empires. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen as his concubine.īut Japan is changing. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Japan, 1865: the women’s palace in the great city of Edo is a sprawling complex much like a middle-eastern harem.
This is the story of a shogun, a princess and the three thousand women of the women’s palace - all of whom really existed - and of the civil war that brought their way of life to an end.
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