"Seeing you writhe under me is super arousing." The beautiful fox demon, Natsume, has a hobby, and it's to play with humans by tricking them with his transformations! Today's target is a good-looking tailor, Takato. Even though Natsume invites him out of nowhere, Takato escorts him elegantly, and Natsume ends up getting drunk! When he woke up, he was at Takato's expensive apartment building. "I've never seen... such a sleek coat before." Natsume's sensitive ears and tail get teased, and wi...

"Show me... how you drown in pleasure." Sota Akinashi, a rookie editor, ends up being in charge of Eishu Kujo, the novelist he admires. He visits him at home in order to persuade him to write a new work, but he's immediately turned away with a cold "Leave." Sota somehow manages to convince him to accept, but since the novelist pursues absolute realism, me makes an unreasonable demand—"Let me make love to you"...!! He's the novelist he respects the most... he knows doing this kind of thing ...

"Seeing you writhe under me is super arousing." The beautiful fox demon, Natsume, has a hobby, and it's to play with humans by tricking them with his transformations! Today's target is a good-looking tailor, Takato. Even though Natsume invites him out of nowhere, Takato escorts him elegantly, and Natsume ends up getting drunk! When he woke up, he was at Takato's expensive apartment building. "I've never seen... such a sleek coat before." Natsume's sensitive ears and tail get teased, and wi...

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful coming of age story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together.After shoplifting some bread one chilly March night, just before the start of a new academic year at Kansei University in western Tokyo, former high school track and field star Kakeru Kurahara runs through the city streets. Though he has grown disillusione...

Sidonie’s been having a string of bad luck, but then she has a miraculous encounter on her flight to Paris—world-famous airline CEO Alexio Christakos sits right next to her in economy. They get off to a bad start, but just as the plane takes off, Sidonie’s fear of flying kicks in. Unexpectedly, Alexio holds her hand gently in order to comfort her. Sidonie feels as though he’s holding not just her hand but her whole body. But he’s used to having one-night stands with gorgeous women, so why ...

Just sitting in the passenger seat of Rafaele’s car is enough to make Samantha feel like he owns her again. Four years ago, she fell passionately in love with the wealthy CEO of a luxury car company. Samantha ended up pregnant, but Rafaele saw her as nothing more than a fling and ended their relationship before she could tell him. She thought she’d never see him again, but here she is sitting next to him. When he sees her son, he instantly realizes that the child must be his. Lashing out i...

"Show me... how you drown in pleasure." Sota Akinashi, a rookie editor, ends up being in charge of Eishu Kujo, the novelist he admires. He visits him at home in order to persuade him to write a new work, but he's immediately turned away with a cold "Leave." Sota somehow manages to convince him to accept, but since the novelist pursues absolute realism, me makes an unreasonable demand—"Let me make love to you"...!! He's the novelist he respects the most... he knows doing this kind of thing ...

From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life.Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take i...

I know that he lives in a different world from me and that I can't possibly tell him that I've had his baby...Haruka Takat? is a surgeon who has returned from studying abroad.He is the man Seri truly loves, the man whose child she secretly gave birth to.Even though he shouldn't know anything, Takat? grows closer to Seri and they spend the whole night embracing each other, as if to make up for the time they've been apart.But one day, she hears rumors that he has...

An award-winning story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection.Kohei Araki believes that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years of creating dictionaries, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement.He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics—whom he swipes from his compa...

"Show me... how you drown in pleasure." Sota Akinashi, a rookie editor, ends up being in charge of Eishu Kujo, the novelist he admires. He visits him at home in order to persuade him to write a new work, but he's immediately turned away with a cold "Leave." Sota somehow manages to convince him to accept, but since the novelist pursues absolute realism, me makes an unreasonable demand—"Let me make love to you"...!! He's the novelist he respects the most... he knows doing this kind of thing ...

"I'll never love someone this much again..."She gave birth to his child in secret.Seri, an unmarried woman raising a child, works at the hospital where Haruka Takat? has arrived to work as a newly appointed surgeon.Seri fell in love with him six years ago. However, it was only a passing fling for him, and she only realized she was pregnant after Takat? went abroad to study.When he reunites with Seri, he becomes forceful for some reason despite having abandoned ...