Shijo was born into an aristocratic family, but from the age of four she was raised by a retired emperor and she eventually becomes his concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and a high priest, who is also a half-brother of the retired emperor.
Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet), is ushered into a lonely woman’s house one rainy night. Her husband is at the front in the war with Russia and, as our hero will soon discover, she’s wearing a chastity belt…
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to keep the secret to themselves. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, […]
At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man’s paranoia results in murder.
Ottavia is left completely alone this summer, but not for long. Walter, who is to change her entire life, now come into it. He is very young, very good looking and cruel.
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