The Water Trade

Determined to ask her mother face to face: "Why did you abandon our family in Hawaii to run a hostess bar in the red-light district of Tokyo. Did you care that I was seventeen and alone in the emergency room, a suction pump pulling sleeping pills back up?"

Gena Hunter's desire for answers comes to an abrupt end when her mother is viciously murdered while closing her bar. The Shinjuku police conclude it's a robbery that went bad; however, Gena is convince that it's more than that because the killing appear done in rage.

Caught in an internal battle of accepting things as they are, or challenging authority and facing her fears, Gena works as a hostess in Japan, at a business she hates, in order to get at the truth to her mother's death.

Drawn into a maze of lies and secrets, she discovers it's about a video. A video that her mother was rumored to be blackmailing a powerful yakuza boss with. Gena finds herself on a collision course with a serial killer out for revenge and power, and the yakuza leader's obsession with bondage and immortality.

A quest for the truth has turn Gena's life upside down, with her father missing at sea, of being accuse by the Shinjuku police for murdering a teenage girl, and of having to seek her own justice in a fight for her life.

Hostessing in Japan is like a Christmas cake. After December 25, young girls over the age of twenty-five are often seen as used goods in the sleazy mizu shobai business. Cless Kai's The Water Trade takes you there. If you enjoy stories of unconditional friendship and vigilante justice page-turners, you'll love this story. Adult language and sexual content.