Download or read book The Geisha with the Green Eyes written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of the Floating World unfold in the embrace of The Geisha with the Green Eyes. In 1850, Japan had remained veiled from the outside world for centuries, a secretive realm that held within its heart Edo. Within Edo lay Yoshiwara — "The Floating World," a center of unbridled pleasure. Deep within this enigmatic district stood the Hidden House, a sanctuary reserved for the elite, where geisha of extraordinary talent dwelled. Among them was Midori No Me, a woman of dual heritage — part Japanese, part foreigner. Born into captivity, she was trained from youth to devote herself to the wealthiest patrons in Japan, her innocence was auctioned at a tender age of thirteen. She found herself under the possession of a renowned kabuki actor before fate intervened, leading her into the hands of Edo's most formidable yakuza. This is the tale of the geisha who fled the intoxicating allure of the Floating World. This is the saga of The Geisha with the Green Eyes. For enthusiasts of Amy Tan's "The Valley of Amazement" and Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha," "The Geisha with the Green Eyes" beckons with its sensuality, sentimentality, and captivating narrative, crafted by author India Millar. Embark on a journey through a mesmerizing historical romance unlike any other. Keywords: Historical romance set in Japan, Geisha historical fiction, Edo-era Japan romance, Yakuza romance novels, Kabuki theater novels, Geisha with green eyes book, Forbidden love Japan historical fiction, Geisha who feels no pain novel, Dragon Geisha book, Hidden House trilogy, Japan historical romance series, Samurai love story, Japanese cultural fiction, Yoshiwara district novels, Floating World romance books, Japan secret society romance, Geisha and yakuza love story, Resilient geisha stories, Author India Millar, Escape from the Floating World, Amy Tan, James Clavell, Arthur Golden, Lisa See, Pearl S. Buck, Eiji Yoshikawa, Gail Tsukiyama

Download or read book Geisha with Green Eyes written by India Millar and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1850, Japan had been closed to the outside world for centuries. It was a secret world. A hidden world. And deep within that hidden world was the Yoshiwari in Edo (now Tokyo). Yoshiwara − "The Floating World". The centre of pleasure, for those men who could afford it. The place where hardly any demand was too strange, too bizarre, to find satisfaction. And − like a carved ivory ball where another world nestles within another world within another world − inside The Floating World was the Hidden House. The place that only a select few knew about. The place where only the very rich could satisfy their innermost desires. The place where nothing, nothing at all, was forbidden. The place where the geisha were ....special. Very special. And in the Hidden House lived Midori No Me − The Geisha with Green Eyes. Even by the standards of the Hidden House, she was unique. Half Japanese, half foreign Barbarian. Born to slavery in the Hidden House when her geisha mother ran away with her foreign Barbarian lover, she grew up knowing no other world. Trained from childhood to dedicate her life to serving the wealthy patrons of the Hidden House. Defiled at 13 when her virginity was sold to the highest bidder; a man old enough to be her grandfather. Possessed by the greatest actor in the Edo Kabuki theatre. Stolen from him by the most powerful Yakuza in Edo. Midori Ne Me. The geisha who knew only what she had been taught - how to give pleasure to men. The geisha who dared to use those skills to throw off the shackles she was born to wear. Midori No Me. The geisha who escaped from the Floating World. Midori No Me. The Geisha with Green Eyes.

Download or read book The Dragon Geisha written by India Millar and published by Secrets from the Hidden House. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midori No Me, the geisha with the green eyes, has finally escaped the Floating World and is living her dream performing in a kabuki troupe as it travels the United States. But she cannot outrun the ghosts of the past. Jealousy and deceit threaten the new life she is trying to build. And when she learns of the cruelty her old master, the yakuza Akira, is inflicting on her friends back in Edo, she cannot ignore their plight. She must somehow find the courage to venture back to the Floating World to help others escape from the prison that was once hers. The geisha with the green eyes must become the dragon geisha.

Download or read book This World is Ours A Historical Romance Novel written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in the Crimea is over. Delighted to be reunited with her husband, Lord Kyle, Terue thinks she will soon be home again in her beloved Scottish Highlands. But fate is not finished with her yet. Terue learns that her daughter is a geisha in Edo. Overjoyed at the chance to be reunited with her child again, she and her husband set out to find Kazhua, returning to where Terue’s life began in the Floating World. But old dangers and new foes abound. Forced to live in hiding, finding Kazhua without revealing Terue’s true identity proves more difficult than they expected. Terue is so close to finding her daughter, she can feel the red thread that binds them together pulling taught. But reaching out to Kazhua could put all their lives at risk.

Download or read book Dreams From The Hidden House written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper was once a Living thing. Do words written On it also live? For the geisha of the Hidden House, the pleasure house in the heart of Edo's notorious Floating World, writing was an escape. A way to forget about the troubles and monotony of their everyday lives and dream, even if just for a moment, of another world. Their fear and joy, pain and pleasure, happiness and sorrow bleed from the ends of the ink brush and onto the pages herein. The haikus in this collection are from the Secrets from the Hidden House novels by India Millar, which chronicle the lives of the exquisite geisha who lived in the Hidden House. INDIA MILLAR started her career in heavy industry at British Gas and ended it in the rarefied atmosphere of the British Library. She now lives on Spain's glorious Costa Blanca North in an entirely male dominated household comprised of her husband, a dog, and a cat. Millar enjoys writing about strong women who fight for what they want. In addition to historical romances, India also writes popular guides to living in Spain under a different name. Her Romance Noir series is highlighted on her website, indiamillar.co.uk.

Download or read book NEO GEISHA written by Monica L. Patton and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BRAINWASHED FROM THE AGE OF SIX... Philomene Doucette is a made-to-order assassin, brainwashed and fractured from systematic abuse. Now aged twenty-one, it is the eve of her most important assignment yet: executing Haruto Mori, a deadly Yakuza clan leader, but her focus is wavering with the awakening of something she hasn't felt in a long time - empathy. Smuggled into Japan to carry out the kill, she finds herself entangled in a web of half-truths and shadow agendas. When the carnage exacts a personal toll, Philomene takes it all on--like the beautiful monster she was programmed to be. From the haunting beauty of the bayou to the land of the rising sun, NEO GEISHA is an immersive, scintillating, edge-of-your-seat, graphic tale of a young assassin's harrowing journey of self-discovery as she struggles between her programming and her desire for free will. Download the NEO GEISHA companion soundtrack wherever eMusic is sold. Book Review 1: "Creating the musical world of 'Neo Geisha' is an exciting challenge because the music must evoke both extreme vulnerability while at the same time bringing us into the dark and sexy world that our heroine inhabits." -- Daniel Klintworth, Composer Book Review 2: "Monica created such an edgy sensual world for Neo Geisha and, being writing partners and friends for so long, I knew she’d appreciate a song that evoked espionage and alt-rock. That’s how the song PHASES became a part of this beautiful project. A life that keeps shifting in phases.” -- Bobby Daye, Songwriter Book Review 3: "Bullets, disguises, and lies...the spy game just got a little deadlier. I'm thrilled to help build a lavish world featuring a richly complicated African-American character who will undoubtedly enhance the spy thriller genre." -- Harvey B. Richards III, Graphic Artist Book review 4: "As the muse for 'Neo Geisha,' I am lending my likeness to a complex protagonist. People are often so much more than what they seem. This character and her alluring journey are no exception." -- Bryce Charles, Actress Book Review 5: "My role as a literary and cultural coach was to ensure that 'Neo Geisha' compellingly takes the reader to Japanese culture and subculture." -- Dr. Yuko Kurahashi, Professor

Download or read book Scorpion written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men speak of sacrifice, but only a woman who has lost everything truly knows what the word means. It is said that the gods become offended when mere humans try to usurp their supremacy in directing earthly affairs. Keiko learns this in a way that leaves her with nothing but crushing grief. To catch a traitor, Keiko must lower herself to serve the man who betrayed her, forced to become his slave. When she loses the thing that has come to mean more to her than anything else in the world, she does not know if she can–or should–continue fighting. If life is only suffering, she would rather die an honorable death. She is alone, abandoned by the world, and it is only by the strangest twist of fate that a figure from her past returns and promises to help her turn disaster into triumph. But will the cost be worth it?

Download or read book Cricket written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories are gifts from the gods. But they can also be a curse… Washing up on a strange and distant shore after being swept off her ship, Keiko is given the precious opportunity to walk away from who she was and find true peace and happiness. Two things that have eluded her ever since she first took up her father’s sword. But Keiko should know that she can never truly escape her past. When her new life is upended, Keiko sees that the true path of the samurai is one that she can never run away from. It is only through vengeance that can she ever hope to find peace for her troubled soul.

Download or read book Spider written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Keiko chooses duty over love, she wonders if the code of the samurai is worth the heartache. Leaving Edo to save the life of a man she once loved, Keiko must give up everything she has worked for. She vows one day to return, but she has learned the hard lesson that the gods have a dark sense of humor. The city of Kobe seems a world away from Edo, a place where she could disappear, become whoever she wants to be, and leave the way of the samurai behind her. But the code of bushido is not so easily discarded. Even as Keiko makes new friends, new allies, and explores new dreams, her duty calls to her. Torn between a life of joy and a life of honor, Keiko knows that she can never truly have both.

Download or read book Chameleon written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keiko thought she was becoming a true samurai warrior, but the loss of her sister will make her doubt everything. Keiko’s revenge on her enemies is almost complete. Like the chameleon, she has changed herself to attract and entrap the men she seeks. Now, just one man remains unpunished. But before she can complete her vengeance, karma destroys her plans cruelly. Niko—her adopted younger sister—is kidnapped. Keiko is sure she knows who is behind the abduction, but she cannot act alone to get Niko back. She is forced to turn to the most unlikely ally to help her—Akira, the most feared yakuza in Edo. Putting her own desires aside, Keiko must question her own motives and role as a samurai to keep from losing the only person left in the world who loves her.

Download or read book Mantis written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone in the world, one woman must use her sword to seek revenge… After Keiko finds herself alone, it is up to her to save her family name and honor. But she is still only a woman. After humbling herself to her daimyo and begs him to restore her birthright, she is met with only ridicule and watches as the man takes her family lands for himself. According to the samurai code of bushido, there is only one thing left for Keiko. Vengeance. Keiko plots to take revenge for the actions of her greedy noble lord and revenge against the men who wanted to buy her and keep her as their slave. Just like the praying mantis, Keiko lures her enemies into a sense of safety before taking her revenge…

Download or read book Firefly written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some who believe that the honor of a samurai is reserved for men. But they are wrong. Keiko was born the daughter of a samurai. But as a mere younger sister, her future was to run errands for her lovely elder sister and obey her father. Until the day her brother thought it would be amusing to teach Keiko the way of an onna-bugeisha—a warrior woman of the samurai. As a samurai, Keiko finds a new place in the world. One where it suddenly falls on her to defend the honor of her family. After her sister is disgraced, Keiko travels to the Floating World, Edo’s pleasure district, not only for vengeance, but for her first taste of the world outside her home.

Download or read book Moth written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the beginning, and the beginning of the end, a journey will come full circle… When Keiko suffers a terrible, personal loss, she believes that she has been reduced to nothing and can no longer wield her samurai sword. In order to survive, she is forced to become little more than a beggar, a humiliating ending for a woman who once inspired legends. But fate still has her own plans for Keiko’s future. After traveling the world, and living a hundred different lives, Keiko finds herself right back where she started, and the answers she seeks waiting for her right where her journey first began.

Download or read book Dragonfly written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the strongest woman has her breaking point, and Keiko has reached hers. Sick at heart and wanting only to leave her past behind her, Keiko is drawn to the sea. Seeking refuge from the world that has nearly torn her spirit apart, she boards the first ship she finds and sails away gladly from her former life. Although Keiko thinks she is done with her past life, fate has much more in store. Her ship is taken by a band of wokou–desperate pirates who will kill to gain the treasure they seek. But just like Keiko, the wokou captain hides a secret. He is a man who, like her, has walked away from his past life, and Keiko comes to believe that she has truly found a kindred spirit in this man who is not what he appears. Yet still, the gods are not ready to give Keiko the peace she craves. Once more, the way of the samurai calls to her and she has to face her greatest challenge. Only this time, love and honor are two sides of the same coin.

Download or read book The Tree of Perseverance written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mi continues in this heart-rending story of betrayal, resilience, and an unbreakable spirit. In the shadow of a poignant Japanese proverb advocating self-reliance—Rely on your own walking stick rather than people—Mi's life takes an unforeseen and harrowing turn. Overcoming the paralysis of the morning left her with a deformed leg, rendering the proverb a cruel reality. As if guided by an inexorable hand of fate, those she holds closest to her heart, one by one, betray her trust, leaving Mi to navigate a world of isolation and despair. Caught in the suffocating grip of a loveless marriage to a foreign doctor who aided her in regaining her mobility, Mi's existence mirrors that of a caged animal—trapped and yearning for freedom. The echoes of her past love and the dreams of a future once cherished are silenced by the heavy chains of her present reality. In this riveting tale of betrayal, resilience, and intrigue, Mi's journey is a testament to the enduring power of the human spirit. Join her as she navigates a treacherous landscape, where the line between friend and foe blurs, and the path to freedom is fraught with danger. Discover how one woman's unwavering determination and self-reliance can ultimately lead to her redemption and the unearthing of truths hidden in the darkest corners of society. Keywords: Japanese historical fiction, pachinko, Min Jin Lee, Musashi, Julie Otsuka, Gail Tsukiyama, Jamie Ford, James Clavell, Shogun, geisha, japanese historical fiction books, historical fiction, historical fiction best sellers, historical fiction authors, historical fiction asian, historical fiction books, historical romance, historical fiction novels, historical fiction romance series

Download or read book The Song of the Wild Geese A Historical Romance Novel written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terue. The girl who was plucked from obscurity to become the most sought after geisha in Edo’s Floating World. The geisha who was so beautiful and talented that one of the richest nobles in Japan desired her as his wife. But Terue wanted more from life, and was willing to risk everything to get it. Pregnant with her lover’s child and knowing that the disgrace would mean certain death for both her and her unborn child, Terue makes the devastating choice to flee Japan on the day her daughter – Kazhua, The Geisha with the Green Eyes – was born and changes both their destinies forever.

Download or read book Frog in a Well written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Geisha with the Green Eyes comes a new historical novel of triumph and transformation. In the world of a Japanese proverb, the frog who resides in a well knows nothing beyond its narrow confines. Mi's life mirrored this notion until she was struck by the devastating grip of polio, thrusting her into a world of unexpected challenges. After months of grappling with fever and pain, she emerged not as a hopeless cripple, but as a survivor with a newfound purpose. Mi's story transcends the boundaries of her well-like existence, revealing a journey of resilience and transformation. In the wake of polio's relentless assault, her world seemed smaller than ever, akin to a frog trapped in a well. Yet, a twist of fate catapulted her into a vast, unfamiliar realm—a realm that threatened to engulf her entirely. Join Mi as she takes her first tentative step on a journey that defies adversity and celebrates the indomitable spirit within. In this captivating narrative, discover how Mi's determination shines brightly, even in the darkest of times. Keywords: Japanese historical fiction, pachinko, Min Jin Lee, Musashi, Julie Otsuka, Gail Tsukiyama, Jamie Ford, James Clavell, Shogun, geisha, japanese historical fiction books, historical fiction, historical fiction best sellers, historical fiction authors, historical fiction asian, historical fiction books, historical romance, historical fiction novels, historical fiction romance series