Mitchell thought it didn't matter that his rival at work had gone out with Akemi before they married. What were a few dates? She'd just arrived in the country, been lost then. He'd even concede hard-charging Frank might have helped her. Why worry about the past with a future this good? But the night of the poker game, Mitchell saw he stood to lose more than the beach vacation they'd saved for. Only the present counted, every heartbeat of it.

In an international marriage, bodies meet where minds can't. Akemi and Mitchell's lives vividly on the page. Passion and anguish, dreams will haunt readers of this series about a woman from East Asia who struggles to find herself with her Western husband and without him. In some of the stories, sex is graphic. All are for adults.

When you're not looking, not thinking, believe all is right with the world, things happen that you blame yourself for later. "If only I'd paid attention." But maybe none of it was ever in your control. Midori was upstairs, presumably with a cold. If Jens didn't go to her, someone else at the party would.

Midori, Matar, Satomi and Jens have left the party in the railroad flat to make one of their own upstairs. It's almost dawn- music below stopped, everyone gone home- but they're just getting started. A couple look for each other within their marriage of opposites, and an odd pair outside it find them.

In an international marriage, bodies meet where minds can't. Akemi and Mitchell's lives vividly on the page. Passion and anguish, dreams will haunt readers of this series about a woman from East Asia who struggles to find herself with her Western husband and without him. In some of the stories, sex is graphic. All are for adults.

On the road, Akemi and Frank plant their feet on new earth. Frank leads her and she guides him deeper.

In an international marriage, bodies meet where minds can't. Akemi and Mitchell's lives vividly on the page. Passion and anguish, dreams will haunt readers of this series about a woman from East Asia who struggles to find herself with her Western husband and without him. In some of the stories, sex is graphic. All are for adults.

A married couple seek the consolation of friends while a party rages around them. Mitchell takes a liking to Akemi's friend Satomi and is drunk enough to act on it. She has never particularly liked him and he has steered clear, but with his wife upstairs nursing a cold- and resentments- Mitchell warms to the challenge.

In an international marriage, bodies meet where minds can't. Akemi and Mitchell's lives vividly on the page. Passion and anguish, dreams will haunt readers of this series about a woman from East Asia who struggles to find herself with her Western husband and without him. In some of the stories, sex is graphic. All are for adults.

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