Names of My Beloved

The sequel to Wishbone Shieh Yeras has a lot on his mind. After four years stationed as a diplomat and a spy in human lands, he’s returning home with Wishbone, the young human male who has become his property and his lover. He expects to cause a stir among shih-aan, who still believe that humans are mere animals. Shieh Yeras' and Wishbone's intricate bed games of artistic sadism are well-suited to a life confined to a cabin for a long sea voyage. But a series of fraught interactions with the ship's crew precipitate them into the stormy sea of jealousy, and their games become both rougher and more dangerous. The closer he gets to Feras-aan, the greater the danger to Shieh Yeras's heart from old wars he left behind, wars that did not die down but grew fiercer in his absence. And a new war is approaching over the horizon, a sign that Shieh Yeras' recently-completed mission to the courts of humans may have been a failure.