The following books are either available now or are releasing in the coming year.
REN'AI RENSAI (恋愛連載) (The Serial of Love)
Genre: (Erotic) Romance, LGBT
Novella, novel, and short story length insights into one lesbian relationship spanning over 20 years. Stories are not released chronologically but can be read in any order. Set in Japan.
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"Aiko and Reina have been together for almost 20 years, yet
one thing remains unsaid between them: "Daisuki", or, "I love
you". As they approach their anniversary, their relationship comes to an
impasse as Aiko the Japanese housewife begins demanding "I love you"
with a side of marriage and romance.
But Reina doesn't understand complex concepts like "love" or other heavy emotions. She's spent years supporting her girlfriend via a soul-sucking salary job and tending to their mutual needs in the bedroom. Isn’t that sufficient? In a culture demanding Reina choose between the "feminine" and the "masculine" worlds, it's bad enough she's trying to find her role without Aiko adding extra pressure.
But Reina doesn't understand complex concepts like "love" or other heavy emotions. She's spent years supporting her girlfriend via a soul-sucking salary job and tending to their mutual needs in the bedroom. Isn’t that sufficient? In a culture demanding Reina choose between the "feminine" and the "masculine" worlds, it's bad enough she's trying to find her role without Aiko adding extra pressure.
Some words need not saying, but "I love you" is about to destroy a relationship already surviving strange side-lovers and even stranger exploits."
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If society has taught
Aiko anything, it’s that one day she will marry a man. Not until she
meets Reina, a lesbian with a knack for flirting, does she decide she
wants to experience a different kind of sexual liberation – assuming she
can overcome her insecurities and nosy family. As she succumbs more and
more to Reina’s charms, however, Aiko wonders if she can really abandon
everyone’s expectations.
Reina has met plenty of girls like Aiko before: cute, naive, and ready to screw the status quo. After being burned by countless young women who go on to marry men and forget their lesbian lives, how can Reina trust yet another “good girl” following her around? Especially when she thinks she may be having those foreign feelings for her best friend instead.
Time will only tell if Hatsukoi, or “first love,” has really come to two such different people. Is their relationship genuine or just another footnote amongst flirting, lying, and sneaking around love hotels?
For their first Valentine's Day together, Aiko hopes her girlfriend
Reina will finally woo her with a little romance. Instead their big date
veers off in a strange direction when Reina decides it's time to
initiate Aiko into the wondrous world of "Mitsushin," or "three hearts"
as their foreign friend calls it. Will this inclusion of a third woman
obliterate all the romance left, or will Aiko discover a new way to
celebrate the love she has for Reina? A relationship legacy that will
ripple throughout all of Shinjuku is about to be born.
Reina has met plenty of girls like Aiko before: cute, naive, and ready to screw the status quo. After being burned by countless young women who go on to marry men and forget their lesbian lives, how can Reina trust yet another “good girl” following her around? Especially when she thinks she may be having those foreign feelings for her best friend instead.
Time will only tell if Hatsukoi, or “first love,” has really come to two such different people. Is their relationship genuine or just another footnote amongst flirting, lying, and sneaking around love hotels?
For over
twenty years Reina has sexually celebrated the women around her with a
reverence only tolerated by her wife, Aiko. But when Reina misinterprets the
fluidity of their open relationship, she’s backed into a corner where her
gender dysphoria reigns supreme. In order to salvage her marriage, she may have
to reanalyze the way she views the world, her life, and her experiences.
Just
when she thinks she’s figured her spouse out, Aiko faces an unexpected
transgression. Can she forgive her? Or will love finally give way to the
fatigue that accompanies being with someone like Reina? A sick mother and
unsympathetic sister are not helping Aiko’s dilemma.
Even the
most passionate relationships sometimes fall asunder to “seikou,” the sexual character at the core of one’s identity. Will
Reina and Aiko reunite with stronger hearts, or is it finally time to go their
separate ways? And if they do split up, who will help them pick up the pieces –
the stoic therapist, the desperate socialite, or the young couple who initiated
this mess to begin with?
On the eve of their wedding, Aiko discovers her girlfriend Reina has
some second thoughts about marriage, life, and aging. Even after twenty
years together, Reina still doesn't know what she wants from her
relationship - can Aiko remind her about the "Rouman", or romance, that
they've cultivated and shared over the years? It's probably going to
take all night.
The day Aiko and Reina move into their own home together is supposed to
be a joyous occasion. However, with Reina working five to six days a
week, Aiko the budding housewife finds solitude tough to handle. She
jumps headlong into making friends at the nearest lesbian get-together
but meets one person not interested: Reina's bitter ex-girlfriend, who
fills her emotional void with activism and her love for all-female
musicals.
While Aiko establishes herself as the queen of domesticity, Reina is nominated for a promotion at work. She soon discovers that being a woman in the professional world is rife with injustice, and begins to resent her gender and the way society treats it. With her ex-girlfriend now hanging around, it is a cold reminder as to what happens when Reina becomes a thorn in other women's families.
Living together will give Aiko and Reina challenges never dreamed of before, yet it gives them the chance to build a life together, other women notwithstanding. Their first trial is to navigate the first few months of coming out, disappointment, glamorous show tunes, and a dark cloud of kataomoi, or "unrequited love," hanging over the city.
While Aiko establishes herself as the queen of domesticity, Reina is nominated for a promotion at work. She soon discovers that being a woman in the professional world is rife with injustice, and begins to resent her gender and the way society treats it. With her ex-girlfriend now hanging around, it is a cold reminder as to what happens when Reina becomes a thorn in other women's families.
Living together will give Aiko and Reina challenges never dreamed of before, yet it gives them the chance to build a life together, other women notwithstanding. Their first trial is to navigate the first few months of coming out, disappointment, glamorous show tunes, and a dark cloud of kataomoi, or "unrequited love," hanging over the city.
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Coming Soon
The subsequent books in the "REN'AI RENSAI" series.
CROSS//Rebirth - Epic urban fantasy set in the same world as REN'AI RENSAI and featuring some of the same characters. Coming 2014.
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