Аннотация
Laura Joh Rowland
The Cloud Pavilion
Edo Genroku Year 14, Month 5 (Tokyo, June 1701)
Prologue
The pain pierced like knives into her breast and jarred her out of black unconsciousness. A gray blur swirled across her vision, as if she were looking up at a sky filled with windblown mist and clouds. Through dizzying nausea flashed pure, visceral terror.
Where was she? How had she come to be here?
A touch grazed her thigh. She gasped as fingers caressed her. The clouds had hands! Hands that were warm, and damp with the mist. As they stroked her hips and groin, she became aware of movement around her, of human flesh pressing on hers. The clouds inhaled and exhaled quick, hoarse gasps. There was a man with her. He and she floated together, suspended in the clouds, somewhere far above the earth. Her terror worsened.
Who was he?
She couldn't see him through the clouds, but she smelled the foul stench of his sweat; she sensed his lust. She knew ...
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