Swallows - Natsuo Kirino
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Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it's hard to turn down.
Retired ballet star Motoi and his wife, Yuko, have spent years trying to conceive.
As Motoi grows increasingly desperate for a child, their last resort is surrogacy; a business transaction, plain and simple.
But as they try to exert ever more control over Riki, their contract with her starts to slip through their fingers...
