The Birth of Steel and Vengeance

<p><strong>Daughters of Wars: Steel and Vengeance</strong><br><em>A Daughters of Wars Novel - Book One</em></p><p>Japan 1867.<br>The Shogunate is splintering. The Emperor rises. The old ways are bleeding out-and with them everything once sacred.</p><p>Far from the capital in the shadow of a forgotten lake lies Kasumigaura a village where the world still breathes in sword strokes and silence. It's here the Hayashi sisters are raised-not as ornaments but as weapons. Trained in war. Schooled in honor. Bound in blood.</p><p>Sumiko the eldest speaks only with her eyes and her blade.<br>Misako the middle burns with unyielding fire.<br>Aiko the youngest walks softly but never blindly. Every step is deliberate. Every arrow a decision.</p><p>Their father once a retainer of Aizu turned his back on politics to raise them in peace. But history doesn't care about peace-and neither does war. When men in imperial uniforms arrive under false pretenses steel unsheathes. By morning Kasumigaura burns. And Aiko is gone.</p><p>What follows is the breaking of everything they believed in.<br>A search becomes a reckoning.<br>Honor turns to vengeance.<br>And the sisters-once daughters of a hidden samurai-are forced to choose between what they were taught and what must now be done.</p><p>