Tangled Spirits

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>An accidental spirit possession. A friendship unlike any other.</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kate Shanahan skillfully blends fictional and historical figures and events into this captivating time-slip tale of magic imperial intrigue and a friendship that spans a thousand years. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(65 65 65 1)></strong><strong style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>...a heartwarming glimpse into the Heian period of Japan and its mythology. - Historical Novel Society</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(65 65 65 1)>For anyone unfamiliar with court life in ancient 10th century Japan... this is the book to read. - Historical Fiction Company</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>2019</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>: Mina Cooper hopes her study-abroad program in Japan will solve her anxiety and friendship issues. After all she's doing what she loves studying Japanese language and literature. But she's still waking up at four am with a racing heart so Mina decides to do something big something very unlike her.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>999</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>: Desperately lonely after her mother and sister die in an epidemic aspiring shaman Lady Masako attempts to summon them. But she's inexperienced in such rituals and pulls Mina's spirit into her body instead. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After a struggle for control and a failed exorcism the two spirits agree to cooperate long enough to get help from the Royal Astrologer the only person powerful enough to send Mina home.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But his help comes at a cost. If Mina doesn't pay it she risks her spirit fusing with Masako's. And if that happens she'll never get home.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Readers have this to say about Tangled Spirits</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Mina's journey in Tangled Spirits is the ultimate study-abroad experience one that will excite and delight many a Japanophile reader. With the unique yet somehow intuitive idea of placing two characters in the same body plus a dash of spirituality and time travel it makes the most of its weird and wonderful premise to deliver a story that not only entertains but also has the potential to introduce Heian Japanese history to a new audience and touch readers with a story of friendship not quite like any they've read before.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This tale captivated me from start to finish.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The idea of two people with totally different life experiences inhabiting the same body and learning to 'live' together was fascinating humorous at times and poignant at others.</span></p>