Murasaki

<h5><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>The thrilling conclusion to Seasons of the Sword!</span></h5><h3><strong style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)><em>Can one girl survive?</em></strong></h3><h4><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>An easy mission promises to be Risuko's last</span></h4><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Kano Murasaki (called Risuko) Emi and Toumi are on accompanying a spoiled young noblewoman to her wedding. What should be a simple assignment-get the bride to the wedding make sure she's properly dressed-is anything but.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Because someone wants the lady dead.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>And because Risuko and her friends aren't just lady's maids. They are </span><em style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>kunoichi</em><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Trained spies assassins... and in this case bodyguards.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>The wedding-which Risuko herself negotiated at sword-point-has the potential to unite the most powerful clans in Japan under a single banner ending over a century of bloodshed. And so Risuko must do everything that she can to keep the brat of a princess safe and deliver her to her groom. Failure would mean death not only for the bride and her bodyguards. It might mean another hundred years of destruction for the whole empire.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Along the way Risuko and her friends must confront hidden enemies and uncover who is behind the plot. She must confront the ghosts of her past to become finally herself.</span></p><h5><span style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Can Risuko survive?</span></h5><h4><strong style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Can Risuko kill?</strong></h4><h5><strong style=color: rgba(25 25 25 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Seasons of the Sword:</strong></h5><ol><li><em style=background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Risuko</em><em style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>(Winter)</span></li><li><em style=background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Bright Eyes</em><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)> (Spring)</span></li><li><em style=background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Kano</em><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)> (Summer)</span></li><li><em style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>Murasaki</em><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)> (Autumn)</span></li></ol><p><span style=color: rgba(95 95 95 1); background-color: rgba(248 247 245 1)>(Young adult historical adventure; Japanese Civil War)</span></p>