Risuko

<h2><strong><em>Samurai assassins warlords -- and a girl who likes to climb</em></strong></h2><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Tight exciting and thoughtful... The characters are nicely varied and all the pieces fit into place deftly.</em> -- Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Kano Murasaki you may not realize it but I have done you a great favor. I have it in my power to give you a gift that you don't even realize you desire. Make yourself worth my trouble and you will be glad of it. Disappoint me and you will be very very sorry.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan -- or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems.</p><p></p><p>Magical but historical <em>Risuko</em> follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is.</p><p></p><h4><strong>The first volume of the Seasons of the Sword series!</strong></h4><p></p><h3><strong>Can one girl win a war?</strong></h3><p>Kano Murasaki called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young fatherless girl more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan where the pieces are armies moved by scheming lords and a single girl couldn't possible have the power to change the outcome. </p><p></p><p>Or could she?</p><p></p><h4>Historical adventure fiction appropriate for young adult and middle-grade readers</h4>