# The Last Concubine

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- Book: [The Last Concubine](https://www.bookquiver.com/lesley-downer/the-last-concubine) ([The Last Concubine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lesley-downer/the-last-concubine.md))
- Authors: [Lesley Downer](https://www.bookquiver.com/lesley-downer)
- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0703-351-8
- Published: 2008-09-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo . Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for 'love'. Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must uncover the secret of her own origins - a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her ....