BOOKS

Osaka 1590. Aki, the youngest daughter of an Osaka cloth merchant, knows her father will marry her off one day. But when her callous, greedy uncle announces plans to adopt her and arrange a marriage advantageous to him, Aki begs her father to find something else.

Samurai Nishioji Tomi works for the Osaka Police as a cover for finding a clandestine anti-Christian conspiracy group. His biggest challenges are caring for his ill mother and hiding his own Christian faith, difficult since the religion remains under suspicion.

When officers arrest Aki’s father for tax evasion, she goes to the Justice Building and proves his innocence. Impressed by her family devotion and drawn by her beauty, Nishioji, the arresting officer, extends her a temporary position as caregiver to his mother. Aki accepts the offer to forestall her uncle’s plans. When efforts to find silk smugglers implicate Aki’s family, the growing relationship between Aki and Nishioji is threatened by a family secret each holds and an old enemy who wants Nishioji dead.

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Quantum Leap meets Shogun

Kira Sakamichi is a career-driven woman, trying to achieve success before her mother’s constant interference sentences her to a relationship. But when a grudging drive to meet her mother’s latest “selection” ends in a lake accident, Kira wakes up lost in the past, the concubine of a sixteenth-century samurai and mother to his six-year-old son. When actions in battle lead to the samurai’s condemnation, Kira learns that she and her son will share the same fate. Only by understanding the importance of duty and family in both time periods can they survive.

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Himeji, Japan 1577

Younger daughter of the area’s most prominent swordsmith, Sen’s life is marked with jealousy, curiosity, and love. Jealousy that her older sister, Haru, gets to marry her father’s handsome apprentice. Curiosity about her father’s important customers. Love from a family that is planning her next step to adulthood.

But when a high-ranking samurai visits her father to order a sword, Sen’s curiosity gets the best of her. She and her sister find themselves eyewitnesses to a murder and on the cusp of a plot that seeks the samurai’s demise.

Will Sen’s curiosity lead to her own death?

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Himeji, Japan – 1587

With the death of her older sister and sole sibling, Sen must return home and find a husband to marry into the family swordsmith business. Failure ensures her family’s craft, honed through generations, will die. Her father’s handsome apprentice, Nobuhiro, would seem the ideal choice for a husband and her parents press the issue. Sen rejects this offer as she wants a Christian husband, difficult as the religion is banned. Eschewing her parents’ advice, Sen decides to seek out local Christians to find a suitable match.

The prodigal third son of a high-level samurai, Nobuhiro seeks to prove his worth to his harsh father by becoming a great swordsmith. But when his master’s daughter begins seeking local Christians, he finds he must protect her from the group of anti-Christians that killed her sister. Despite his growing attraction to her, he believes her devotion to her faith reckless. Yet failure to protect her dooms the family he serves. And falling for a Christian dooms reconciliation with his own father, who must enforce the ban.

Will faith forge love or will it forge death?

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