The Broken Oath

<p>Edo 1868. The empire is bleeding. So are the lies.</p><p>After killing a man they weren't supposed to and fleeing the political firestorm in Aizu the Hayashi sisters arrive in Edo under cover of silence. But the capital is no sanctuary. It's a city dressed in ceremony rotting underneath. Foreigners haunt the docks. Spies poison the palaces. And everyone smiles as they sharpen their blades.</p><p>Sumiko Misako and Aiko didn't come to play diplomat. They came to uncover the truth behind their father's death-and drag it kicking and screaming into the light. But truth has a price in Edo. And someone's already decided the sisters are worth more dead than dangerous.</p><p>They carry no clan banner. No daimyō protects them. What they have are each other a few blades and the memory of the man whose murder was rewritten as sacrifice. Every answer leads deeper into the rot-into crumbling mansions forbidden letters foreign whispers and betrayals old enough to wear new faces.</p><p>Edo stands between two worlds: one foot in feudal tradition the other drowning in politics and guns. Honor is just a word people use when they want you to die quietly. And for women-especially armed ones-there's no safe ground. Only expectations to break.</p><p>This is not a war of nations. It's a war of ghosts. Of legacies. Of sisters who refuse to kneel.</p><p>The world is burning-and these women came with oil.<br><br>For readers aged 14 and up - no upper limit.<br>Some stories aren't bound by numbers. They're forged in silence scars and the will to endure.</p>