Tokyo Whispers

INTERNATIONAL SCANDALIntent on being an international journalist of repute, Evelyn Prescott will do what it takes to make her mark.It doesn't hurt her father has built a newspaper empire, but finding a scandal in Japan is no easy task.As much as she hates to admit it, she is forced to meet with the owner of the Tokyo Daily News, Ned Taylor, also an Englishman.Ned holds a deep-rooted dislike of Evelyn's father's approach to journalism, and Ned, a notorious rake, pushes her to see just how far Evelyn is prepared to go to get her story. In the Foreign Quarter of Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan, Victorian England is alive and well. Manners and etiquette are as valuable as gossip and deceit. Men are more rakish than ever - so far from home, societal rules seemed to be relaxed. But courting young women still requires a deft hand, a smart wit, and man with something to offer.

CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS1897 Tokyo is no different than anywhere else in the world: men are exploiting women. Specifically, Western men are exploiting Japanese women, and Suki Malveaux holds no punches in her condemnation of their behavior in her weekly column in the Tokyo Daily News.Suki knows firsthand when Western men arrive at Tokyo Bay there's only one outcome for Japanese women: a child and new mother left behind as nothing more than discarded shrapnel from the heartless war on love.Griffith Spenser is her latest target. He's been seen with Natsu Watanabe, one of Tokyo's esteemed war widows. Under full anonymity of the moniker "The Tokyo Tattler," Suki makes sure Griffith knows exactly why his behavior with Natsu won't be tolerated.Away from her Japanese mask as a columnist, Suki never intended to meet the cad. When he seeks her out to hire as a tutor for his niece and nephew, she's faced with seeing him day in and day out without him ever knowing who she really is.Caught in her struggle for anonymity so she can keep battling for women's rights, Suki's about to learn the full impact of her words on the people behind the story, especially on Griff. In the Foreign Quarter of Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan, Victorian England is alive and well. Manners and etiquette are as valuable as gossip and deceit. Men are more rakish than ever - so far from home, societal rules seemed to be relaxed. But courting young women still requires a deft hand, a smart wit, and man with something to offer.

Torn Apart at the SeamsWith all her skill at her fingertips, and funded by a secret benefactor, Marcelle Renaud puts everything she owns into a modest French dressmaking boutique in Tokyo. She works hard blending Japanese traditional style with the exotic taste of France, and it's getting her noticed. She needs little by way of support. She enjoys being self-sufficient, and with her shop as her focus, a love interest stands no chance of getting close to her heart.Nobuyuki Koide returns from London and uses running his stylish new Ginza Boulevard department store to keep his parents from forcing him to marry and become the latest toast of Tokyo's elite. Having tasted London and beyond, he wants to move with the times, especially when it comes to choosing a wife.When Marcelle calls him out for attempting to bankrupt her boutique, he thinks he's met his match in all ways that matter. But first he needs to convince her he's not a design thief out to threaten her livelihood or her independence.Except, there's the matter of the brick that was thrown through her boutique window.Marcelle believes her troubles concern only her and Nobuyuki. But in 1900 Japan, a French woman who's embroiled in both love and business with a Japanese man has far more complications than she can imagine. In the Foreign Quarter of Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan, Victorian England is alive and well. Manners and etiquette are as valuable as gossip and deceit. Men are more rakish than ever - so far from home, societal rules seemed to be relaxed. But courting young women still requires a deft hand, a smart wit, and man with something to offer.