Strict Hand

Kendo Inagawa, son of Tokyo’s most notorious Yakuza crime boss was raised to master a strict code of loyalty, respect, justice, and duty passed down since the medieval days of his Samurai ancestors. Years of disciplined training made Kendo’s broad shoulders and lithe physique into the hard-bodied, dignified, single-minded perfection his father intended to take over the family business. Instead, Kendo shocked his father, and the polite Western world, with his cello. Masterful interpretations of Bach’s serene notes pulse with insistence, an unrelenting feral power. Jennifer, his sweet, gentle American bride trusts him entirely, and her love gives him the strength to rebel against his family. Kendo would do anything to protect her innocence, her perfect soft curves, from his dark longings, raging beneath the control that forges each frustrated step.

Jennifer Inagawa, a woman whose angelic blond hair and pearl skin, coupled with a body to put Playboy on notice, is every man’s American Dream. She had fallen, hard, one night at the symphony, for an exotic, dark man barely contained by his gracious surroundings. Desperate to be the object of his concentration, his wide and calloused hands, she would give anything to be touched the way he dominates the tenuous box of wood and silken strings, to voice the low tones of her desires. Instead, she finds a dutiful and tentative partner, making love with the careful etiquette of a handshake. Her husband’s polite perfection earns Kendo her complete trust and devotion, but she wants more. She needs more. Jennifer’s frustration has turned her life into laziness and bored accumulation.

Until their lives are thrown into crisis by a visit from Kendo’s father, and barriers are shattered. Kendo must teach Jennifer discipline, self-mastery, and fulfillment, the only way he knows how. To protect themselves from his father, Kendo and Jennifer must find their strength together, and learn control, with a strict hand.