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Explicit. This trilogy of short tales explores sensuality at its most primal. In The Offering, a curvaceous young nymph is offered as a sacrifice to a mythical monster, only for rescue to come in an unlikely form. Then we have voyeuristic misadventures of a Middle Ages virgin who encounters a lovely maiden in the woods. Finally a tale of Venice at the beginning of the 20th century, when a pregnant young woman joins her lover during a mystery-laden Venetian masquerade ball.

Thoughtful, intelligent, arousing, with exquisitely rendered Rubenesque women, these stories reveal a previously unseen erotic side of one of Europe's greatest comics creators, Loisel (Peter Pan, Roxanna & The Quest for the Time Bird).