His Sweet Solace

Edition excerpt from His Sweet Solace, Vol. 1 (2027): Can a washed-up novelist revive her career by writing about the male sex worker she’s hooking up with? Aoba Yomogi is a 35-year-old novelist whose career is on the rocks. When her editor suggests she write about sex services for women, Yomogi balks. But curiosity and loneliness drive her to explore a world where the boundaries between love and work blur. Yomogi has always depended on her former editor Ryo—for work advice, for inspiration, and lately for sex. When he tells Yomogi he’s getting married and can’t see her anymore, Yomogi is devastated. Feeling lonely and craving affection, she hires a male sex worker for the night. But when she arrives at the love hotel, the man she meets is someone she knows…