She had been a ghost so long she forgot she had ever been flesh. She had been a servant so long she forgot she had ever been a woman. She had been invisible so long she forgot what it felt like to be seen—until the wrong eyes found her.

In the shadowed heart of Kyoto-Meiji, behind the high walls of the Sakai estate, Tomomi moves through her days like a whisper—unseen, unheard, essential only in her absence. For twelve years, she has been the quiet engine of a household that never truly accepted her: a servant elevated to wife, a ghost haunting the corridors of a life that was never meant to be hers. She tends the garden, scrubs the veranda, feeds the koi, and waits. She has always been waiting.

Her husband, Sakai Jomai, is a man of cold calculation and colder cruelty—a crime lord whose empire is built on the suffering of others. Her stepson, Kazuo, is a disappointment to his father and a stranger to the woman who raised him. And Tomomi herself is a woman who has learned to survive by being nothing, wanting nothing, expecting nothing. She has buried her griefs deep—a child lost beneath the plum tree, a mother who sold her into servitude, a body that has never truly been her own.

But when Jomai leaves for the city and Kazuo returns with hunger in his eyes, the careful silence of the Sakai household shatters. A single cup of tea, laced with something dark and chemical, awakens desires Tomomi has spent decades suppressing. What follows is a descent into a world of violation and twisted longing, where the boundaries between captor and captive, victim and willing participant, blur beyond recognition.

Tomomi is not a young woman. She is forty-three, her body marked by years of labor, her spirit weathered by a lifetime of invisibility. But in the eyes of the man who should call her mother, she is something far more dangerous: a conquest. A prize. A body to be claimed, broken, and remade in his image.

As the days blur into a nightmare of compulsive surrender, Tomomi begins to feel the first stirrings of something she thought she had lost forever—hope. A child grows in her womb, a life conceived in violence, yet impossibly, unbearably, hers. But even as she clings to this fragile dream, the master of the house is returning.

The walls of the Sakai household have seen decades of secrets. But they have never seen anything like what is coming.

"Dark, visceral, and impossible to put down. Abbie Hush weaves a world of moral complexity and raw, aching humanity."

— Readers' Review

"A haunting exploration of captivity and resilience. Tomomi's story will stay with you."

— Indie Book Collective

Tomomi: House of Entrapment is the tenth installment of the dark, intoxicating Spoils of New Eden series from GúshiHush Books (GHBooks) — where forbidden desire meets the shadows of power, and no one walks away unchanged.

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