Kenjiro — Pat Barr

Japan in 1862 was a land of cherry blossom, frail obedient women, and the fierce traditions of the old Samurai. When the white Barbarians came in to trade, it seemed bloody conflict was inevitable.

As Kenjiro, the young nobleman, looks down from his hiding place as the Englishman slaughtered by his overlord's orders, he cannot guess that the man ministering to the dead will one day be his next of kin.

And as vibrant, warm-hearted Elinor Mills stands by her fiancé's grave high over Yokohama Harbor, she does not dream that one day she will make a woman's ultimate sacrifice for the land she comes to love.

For these two people were to be consumed by a love that defied convention and rocked the Victorian world with its daring passion.