{"product_id":"daughters-of-wars-the-birth-of-steel-and-vengeance-paperback","title":"Daughters of Wars: The Birth of Steel and Vengeance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSumiko Nakano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteel and Vengeance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Daughters of Wars Novel - Book One\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapan, 1867.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Shogunate is splintering. The Emperor rises. The old ways are bleeding out-and with them, everything once sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from the capital, in the shadow of a forgotten lake, lies \u003cb\u003eKasumigaura\u003c\/b\u003e, a fictional village where the world still breathes in sword strokes and silence. It's here the \u003cb\u003eHayashi sisters\u003c\/b\u003e are raised-not as ornaments, but as weapons.\u003cbr\u003eTrained in war. Schooled in honor. Bound in blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSumiko\u003c\/b\u003e, the eldest, speaks only with her eyes and her blade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMisako\u003c\/b\u003e, the middle, is fire-sharp, wild, unyielding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAiko\u003c\/b\u003e, the youngest, walks softly but never blindly. Every step she takes is calculated. Every arrow she looses, deliberate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir father, once a retainer of Aizu, turned his back on politics to raise his daughters in peace-isolated, disciplined, invisible. But history doesn't care about peace. And neither does war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen men in imperial uniforms arrive at their gates under false pretenses, it doesn't take long for steel to unsheathe.\u003cbr\u003eBy morning, \u003cb\u003eKasumigaura\u003c\/b\u003e is scarred. Smoke coils in the sky.\u003cbr\u003eAnd \u003cb\u003eAiko is gone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is the breaking of everything they believed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA search becomes a reckoning.\u003cbr\u003eHonor turns to vengeance.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the sisters-once daughters of a hidden samurai-are forced to choose between what they were taught... and what must now be done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53594716766515,"sku":"9798325226014","price":9.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/daughters-of-wars-the-birth-of-steel-and-vengeance-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}