{"id":124,"date":"2013-01-29T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2013\/01\/29\/out-now-seikou-book-3-of-the-renai-rensai-series\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:48:00","slug":"out-now-seikou-book-3-of-the-renai-rensai-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2013\/01\/29\/out-now-seikou-book-3-of-the-renai-rensai-series\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT NOW: “SEIKOU.” Book 3 of the REN’AI RENSAI series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I’m very excited to announce the third novel release of the REN’AI RENSAI series! “Seikou.” is thus far my favorite release. Of course, I love all my works (otherwise I wouldn’t bother with them!) but I have a lot of ~feelings~ about “Seikou.” I’ve never been one to shy away from bending the conventions of a genre. Even though some people may not be happy with the overall plot (infidelity) because it’s a touchy subject for a lot, it’s something I really wanted to do and was an inevitable direction for the relationship of Aiko and Reina. My main goal was to tell a story with that at its core plot…and pull it off with the HFN. There are a lot of highly emotional (and sexy) scenes along the way. To say I am proud of this story is an understatement.<\/p>\n

That said, please enjoy the blurb and excerpt below!<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

Just when she thinks she\u2019s 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\u2019s dilemma. <\/p>\n

Even the most passionate relationships sometimes fall asunder to \u201cseikou<\/em>,\u201d the sexual character at the core of one\u2019s 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 \u2013 the stoic therapist, the desperate socialite, or the young couple who initiated this mess to begin with?<\/p>\n

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            \u201cWe\u2019re going to try an exercise,\u201d Dr. Katou announced, her legs crossed once more. \u201cIts goal is to help you two better understand how you see each other.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>This\u2019ll be grand.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cReina, let\u2019s begin with you. Please select one word that you think best describes your wife.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>A word? Just a word? While Reina was a champion of brevity, she could hardly sum up everything that was \u201cAiko Takeuchi\u201d into one measly word. Reina\u2019s vocabulary wasn\u2019t that fantastic. How was she supposed to describe her own precious wife, the one she had so apparently wronged, with one word? What would she focus on? Her beauty, despite its aging? Her homemaking prowess? Her sweetness? Her trademark naivet\u00e9 that had gradually chipped away over the years, the more Reina influenced her?<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cI guess it would be arasagashi.<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Aiko gasped, and Dr. Katou \u201chmmmed\u201d like she always did when things were about to get interesting. \u201cArasagashi?<\/i>\u201d Aiko repeated. \u201cIs that so? You think I am so picky?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cUn.<\/i>\u201d She hadn\u2019t been in the early years of their relationship, but Reina gauged Aiko\u2019s habit of picking out every fault in her partner began around the time they moved in together and she adopted the occupation of homemaker. The day that happened was the same day Aiko went from a fun and curious girl to a ranting woman, as if she were determined to become the stereotypical housewife who constantly treated her husband like a careless child. But like her diminishing naivet\u00e9, it too had been gradual, enough for Reina to ignore it while continuing to enjoy the things she loved most about Aiko. <\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>She was halfway through spitting out a testy response when Dr. Katou cut her off. \u201cAnd how about you? What one word would you use to describe your partner?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Reina should have seen it coming from beyond the Japanese Alps, from the way Aiko\u2019s jaw set with a determined, slightly arasagashi-<\/i>like stance. She should have seen it coming, but she didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cSeikou.<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Without context, Reina had no idea how to take that word. Seikou <\/i>in itself had seemingly endless definitions. She had half a mind to ask Aiko to write it down in Japanese kanji <\/i>so she could see the intended version.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cSeikou, <\/i>eh? So I\u2019m a steel manufacturer?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>No surprise when Aiko didn\u2019t laugh at that joke.<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cAm I a big success?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cYou know which one I mean.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cHardly.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>I know. <\/i>Reina could see the layers written in the lines of Aiko\u2019s face. Denial kept them at bay. If Reina faced the true meanings Aiko intended, then she had to confront the same accusation she had flung in her wife\u2019s face one week before. I\u2019ve always known.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span><\/span><\/i>\u201cYour character is rotten. Rotten with sex.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Oh, not one meaning, but two! And how they intertwined was so affronting that Reina leaped up in sheer shock. \u201cSeikou, <\/i>is it?\u201d she snapped. \u201cIf you knew my character was so consumed with sex, then why did you get into a relationship with me, huh?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cHow could I have known?\u201d Aiko retained her nonplussed demeanor, that same evil one turning Reina\u2019s life upside-down. \u201cHow does an inexperienced girl recognize that sort of sordid character consumed with sex? It\u2019s not normal. You should never choose other women over me!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cChoose women\u2026 over you\u2026 seikou! Shinjiran!<\/i>\u201d Reina paced back and forth even after Dr. Katou gently suggested she sit down again. \u201cI don\u2019t believe it! It\u2019s like I told you last week. You\u2019ve been trying to change me over all this time!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cI have done no such thing!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cBut don\u2019t you wish you could? Don\u2019t you wish you could make me normal?<\/i>\u201d Reina glowered above her wife. \u201cIt\u2019s bad enough your oversexed spouse can\u2019t keep her legs closed, right? She\u2019s also got a whole box of other problems, all the way down to her inability to have sex like a woman!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cReina!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cDon\u2019t deny it! You want me to fit into your heteronormative dreams! You got your marriage, and now you want\u2026\u201d Reina choked and stepped back. All her gender-infused demons came crawling up her legs and took root in her stomach, and there was Aiko gawking at her in horror. She hates me. <\/i>Reina stumbled over her empty chair. I\u2019m a monster. <\/i>She couldn\u2019t breathe. I\u2019m neither man nor woman. <\/i>\u201cYou want me to die inside just to fit your mold.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Reina collapsed into her chair and held her head between her hands, forcing back the sobs wanting to burst out and humiliate her. The demons inside her taunted her identity as neither man nor woman, their cackles drowning out the sounds of Aiko\u2019s panicked declarations of love happening a meter away. <\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>\u201cNo, Reina, no!\u201d Aiko grabbed a shaking hand and parted drooping hair. \u201cI would never! I would never change you!<\/i> I don\u2019t care about your libido, or our lifestyle!\u201d Chairs screeched backwards as Aiko shoved out of her seat. \u201cI only want you to keep your promise to me!\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
            <\/span>Her kisses were warm and wet on Reina\u2019s face, but it wasn\u2019t enough. Not when she now knew her wife\u2019s summation of her. Seikou. <\/i>Everything wrapped in the core of Reina\u2019s identity, from her carefree attitude to the way she tended to women around her \u2013 those beautiful, loving women \u2013 was a divide between them. I didn\u2019t mean to hurt you, Ai-<\/i>chan. Reina didn\u2019t want to feel the affection showered upon her. So why are you hurting me?<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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