Risuko

<h2>Can one girl win a war?</h2><h3><em>Tight exciting and thoughtful! -- </em>Kirkus</h3><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>- - - -</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>Magical but historical <i>Risuko</i> follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is.</p><h3>Seasons of the Sword</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 possibly have the power to change the outcome.</p><p>Or could she?</p><h5>Historical adventure fiction appropriate for young adult and middle-grade readers</h5>