Blood in the Lantern Light

<p>Asha Takahashi crossed an ocean with one name in her pocket.</p><p><em>Hiroshi Takahashi.</em></p><p>Her father.<br>The man who vanished before she was born.</p><p>What she finds in Kurashiki is not a reunion.</p><p>It's a system.</p><p>A town preserved in beauty and silence-streets too clean smiles too controlled people who never leave. A place where nothing seems wrong...</p><p>until you look too closely.</p><p>Because Kurashiki isn't just protected.</p><p>It's ruled.</p><p>By blood.</p><p>By power.</p><p>By something ancient watching from behind it all-</p><p>Lady Tsukiko. The Regent. The woman no one questions... and no one survives betraying.</p><p>As Asha searches for the truth about her father the illusion begins to crack.</p><p>Families aren't what they seem.<br>Memories don't belong to the people who carry them.<br>And the people around her?</p><p>They're not just watching her.</p><p>They're measuring her.</p><p>Because in Kurashiki predators don't hunt in the dark.</p><p>They sit at the table.</p><p>They smile.</p><p>And they wait.</p><p>When Asha's blood is finally tasted everything changes.</p><p>Something awakens.<br>Something ancient.<br>Something the town was never meant to see again.</p><p>Now she's no longer just looking for answers-</p><p>She's at the center of a power struggle that has been buried for generations.</p><p>And in a place where blood decides everything...</p><p>Being family might not save her.</p><p>It might be the reason she doesn't survive.</p><p><em><strong>BLOOD IN THE LANTERN LIGHT</strong></em> is a dark supernatural fantasy filled with hidden power deadly bloodlines and the moment a stranger realizes she may be the most dangerous thing in the room.</p>