In good harvest years in the village of Gaiyto at the base of Lord Sumitora's mountain castle on the island of Honshu, the lord selects a 14-year-old boy to attend his tea of the full moon ceremony and enter into his service. In exchange, Lord Sumitora's granaries are opened to the village in bad harvest years. It is a very good harvest year, and Edo has reached his 14th year.
This story is written across several different genres and is difficult to describe except in the sense it is historical, time-shifting, science fictional, romantic, erotic, fiction. The lead character is female and conflicted about her own sanity. Read carefully to determine what is reality and what is fantasy.
For Halloween: Writer Neal Nelson is thrown into madness, guilt, and regret when his 14-year-old lover, Nate, becomes terminally ill and takes his own life. Neal's doctor puts him on nerve medicine that might have the effect of causing illusions and sends him to a change of scene to coax him into finishing a novel and recovering. In Dragoon Hall, a historic house in the Forest of Dean, England, Neal finds legends and a new, possibly drug-induced, perspective on life and sexual fulfillment