<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>