The Last Concubine
Author: Downer, Lesley
ISBN: 9780552155205
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Apr 2009
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback / softback
Epic history and romance combine in a passionate, exotic novel featuring the mysterious mistress of the last shogun emperor.
Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo.
Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.
But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. 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'.
Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must uncover the secret of her own origins - a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her ....
ISBN: 9780552155205
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Apr 2009
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback / softback
Epic history and romance combine in a passionate, exotic novel featuring the mysterious mistress of the last shogun emperor.
Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo.
Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.
But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. 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'.
Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must uncover the secret of her own origins - a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her ....
