Shogun's Daughter

Laura Joh Rowland''s thrilling series set in Feudal Japan is as gripping and entertaining as ever with The Shogun''s Daughter. Japan 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed attended by her nurse. Smallpox pustules cover her face. Incense burns to banish the evil spirits of disease. After Tsuruhime takes her last breath the old woman watching from the doorway says Who''s going to tell the Shogun his daughter is dead?The death of the Shogun''s daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. There will be no grandchild to leave the kingdom. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles caused by the recent earthquake he names as his heir Yoshisato the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa the shogun''s favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro.Sano doubts that Yoshisato is really the Shogun''s son believing it''s more likely a power-play by Yanagisawa. When Sano learns that Tsuruhime''s death may have been a murder he sets off on a dangerous investigation that leads to more death and destruction as he struggles to keep his pregnant wife Reiko and his son safe. Instead he and his family become the accused. And this time they may not survive the day.