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    The Netsuke
    The Netsuke
    The Netsuke
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    The Netsuke

    By Anna Austen Leigh

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    A little Japanese carved netsuke turns out to hold hidden secrets... as does Asquith, the Orientalist.

    A short story about sex and discovery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnna Austen Leigh
    Release dateDec 31, 2011
    ISBN9781466029743
    The Netsuke
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    Anna Austen Leigh

    Anna Austen Leigh quit the stock market while she was ahead to forge a new life as a full time writer. She now writes erotic adventure and romance, and spends her spare time managing her investments, rather than the other way around.

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      The Netsuke - Anna Austen Leigh

      The Netsuke

      Anna Austen Leigh

      Published by Anna Austen Leigh at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Anna Austen Leigh

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      She loved the shutter-darkened room at the back of the building where Asquith had his desk. His desk with the Thai buddha on it, smiling, exotic and inscrutable, the smile very slightly cruel. Asquith, who always smelt of eau de cologne and talked in a languid drawl. Asquith, who had been to the Orient and returned with his antiquities, malaria, and an elegant saluki dog that the other office staff said had been given him

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