The Prime Minister's Secret Diplomacy by Youka Nitta

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Shiraishi is a young diplomat for a Japan's embassy in Thailand. Here he has the change to work with Yoshinaga, a very young diplomat whose genius and political ability helped him to make a fast career. Yoshinaga is also Shiraishi's sister fiancee, even if the engagement is more a interest bargain than a matter of love.

When Shiraishi sees Yoshinaga in a night club kissing another man, he has puzzled feelings: he is angry for a man of Yoshinaga's level to be so open in public, but he is also worried for his family and sister. So he corners Yoshinaga and pretends some explanations to a scandalous behavior. Instead Yoshinaga justifies all his unethical moves due to the context and moreover, he kisses also Shiraishi and soon after they start an affair, putting also Shiraishi in an embarrassing position and bonding him to not reveal anything otherwise he will put at risk also his career.

Between Shiraishi and Yoshinaga there is a strange relationship: obviously they are very attracted from each other, but both Yoshinaga than Shiraishi seem not willing to give up their career for love; on the contrary Yoshinaga has no intention to break his engagement with Shiraishi's sister, and Shiraishi seems right with having an extra marital relationship with him, betraying not a mere other woman, but his own sister.

The story is pretty complex, the graphic detailed and rich; this is, according to the author, only a first volume of several others, even if the American publisher released it as a one stand volume.

http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Ministers-Secret-Diplomacy-Yaoi/dp/1934129151/

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Comments

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

I love Youka Nitta. I. Love. Her. Winter Cicada the OVAs? Embracing Love? Wow. The books and the anime are yummy. I was hoping this would continue, because it isn't the kind of story that ends with this novel. Did you see Ms. Nitta is going to be at Yaoi Con???!!!

She does make me a little cranky because sometimes I think she only has two faces in her (to draw). It's hard to tell people apart, especially in Embracing Love where the young photographer is a dead ringer for Iwaki but also looks like the evil personal assistant from another volume.

I hope this story coninues *frowns*. It's rather incomplete as it is...

Have you seen the Winter Cicada OVAs?

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> Have you seen the Winter Cicada OVAs?

yes but it's pretty sad and I prefer a good HEA, like in Embracing Love.

And I also hope this one will continue and we will have an HEA. I would like to see this two together, without a wife amid.

Elisa