Book description
The early summer of 1892 brought a heavy rainy season that year in
Japan. Plum Rain, the Japanese called it, because it comes when the
fruit bulges with ripeness and promise. Like a young girl reaching
womanhood. A girl like me. In the ancient Japanese tradition of beauty
and grace, sex and erotic fantasies are hidden secrets that only a
select few may learn, and which are forbidden to foreigners. But when a
threat to her father's life puts her own in jeopardy, young Kathlene
Mallory is sent to live in safety at the Tea House of the Look-Back
Tree, where she is allowed to glimpse inside the sensual world of the
geisha. During the years of her training in the art of pleasuring men,
Kathlene's desires are awakened by the promise of unending physical
delights, and she eagerly prepares for the final ritual that will
fulfill her dream of becoming a geisha the selling of her virginity. The
man willing to pay for such an honor, Baron Tonda, is not the man for
whom Kathlene carries a secret longing, but he is the man who will bring
ruin to the teahouse, and danger to Kathlene, if he is disappointed
&. The early summer of 1892 brought a heavy rainy season that year
in Japan. Plum Rain, the Japanese called it, because it comes when the
fruit bulges with ripeness and promise. Like a young girl reaching
womanhood. A girl like me. In the ancient Japanese tradition of beauty
and grace, sex and erotic fantasies are hidden secrets that only a
select few may learn, and which are forbidden to foreigners. But when a
threat to her father's life puts her own in jeopardy, young Kathlene
Mallory is sent to live in safety at the Tea House of the Look-Back
Tree, where she is allowed to glimpse inside the sensual world of the
geisha. During the years of her training in the art of pleasuring men,
Kathlene's desires are awakened by the promise of unending physical
delights, and she eagerly prepares for the final ritual that will
fulfill her dream of becoming a geisha the selling of her virginity. The
man willing to pay for such an honor, Baron Tonda, is not the man for
whom Kathlene carries a secret longing, but he is the man who will bring
ruin to the teahouse, and danger to Kathlene, if he is disappointed
&.