Fourth Sister

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Whitney Award Finalist 2021</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The fourth of seven sisters Shisei has always been called cursed. Her twin died at birth. Her name shortens to shi-death. And in a world where superstition rules and myths walk among mortals she's the only one who can see the fox spirit that shadows her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When her eldest sister's pregnancy threatens to become another death laid at Shisei's feet she flees before death can follow her home again. She finds purpose as an apprentice to a mask maker learning that broken things when mended with gold become more beautiful than before.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But death finds her anyway.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When her youngest sister faces execution for a crime she didn't commit she's given seven impossible tests to prove her innocence-each representing a divine attribute. Each sister possesses one gift and Shisei holds the thread that can weave them all together: the art of illusion. Using her talents to make each sister appear as the youngest they'll risk everything on a deception that could condemn them all.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Woven with haiku Japanese folklore and the delicate art of mask-making Fourth Sister is a love story-not of romance but of sisterhood.</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> A tale of self-acceptance mending broken relationships and discovering that what we believe is our curse may be our greatest strength.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Little Women x Spirited Away</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>***</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Hearth and Bard Tales</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Forgotten fairy tales retold with soul</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Historical fantasy where magic is real love is hard-won and hope always finds a way.</em></p><p></p>