Shadow of the Fox
One thousand years ago,
the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish—and the land
of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos.
Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be
granted. A new age is about to dawn.
Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her
life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with
illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. Until the day her home
is burned to the ground, her adoptive family is brutally slain and she is
forced to flee for her life with the temple’s greatest treasure—one part of the
ancient scroll.
There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Kage Tatsumi, a
mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to
retrieve the scroll… at any cost. Fate brings Kage and Yumeko together. With a
promise to lead him to the scroll, an uneasy alliance is formed, offering
Yumeko her best hope for survival. But he seeks what she has hidden away, and
her deception could ultimately tear them both apart.
With an army of demons at her heels and the unlikeliest of allies at her side,
Yumeko’s secrets are more than a matter of life or death. They are the key to
the fate of the world itself.
A Mortal Song
Sora's life was full of magic—until she discovered it was all a lie.
Heir to Mt. Fuji's spirit kingdom, Sora yearns to
finally take on the sacred kami duties. But just as she confronts her parents
to make a plea, a ghostly army invades the mountain. Barely escaping with her
life, Sora follows her mother's last instructions to a heart-wrenching she is a
human changeling, raised as a decoy while her parents' true daughter remained
safe but unaware in modern-day Tokyo. Her powers were only borrowed, never her
own. Now, with the world's natural cycles falling into chaos and the ghosts
plotting an even more deadly assault, it falls on her to train the unprepared
kami princess.
As Sora struggles with her emerging human weaknesses and the draw
of an unanticipated ally with secrets of his own, she vows to keep fighting for
her loved ones and the world they once protected. But for one mortal girl to
make a difference in this desperate war between the spirits, she may have to
give up the only home she's ever known. With its breathtaking action,
heart-wrenching conflict, and unexpected romance, this vivid standalone
contemporary fantasy will delight fans of Julie Kagawa and Laini Taylor. Dive
into the captivating world of the kami today!
Ink
On the heels of a family
tragedy, the last thing Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the
world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She
doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks, and she can’t
seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.
Then there’s gorgeous but aloof Tomohiro, star of the school’s kendo team. How
did he really get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t prepared for the answer. But
when she sees the things he draws start moving, there’s no denying the truth:
Tomo has a connection to the ancient gods of Japan, and being near Katie is
causing his abilities to spiral out of control. If the wrong people notice,
they'll both be targets.
Katie never wanted to move to Japan—now she may not make it out of the country
alive.
The Woman in the White
Kimono
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets
between them.
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the
son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in
their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an
American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame
upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child,
she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with
consequences that will ripple across generations.
America, present day. Tori Kovač, caring for her dying father, finds a letter
containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she
understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth
behind the letter, Tori’s journey leads her halfway around the world to a
remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past
to pave a way for redemption.
In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and
little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the
White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between
her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true
meaning of home.
