Ghost E-Book

David Kudler

• Herausgeber: Stillpoint/Atalanta
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Serie: Kunoichi Companion Tales
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 29

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Mochizuki Chiyome wants someone dead

And someone wants to serve her

At a banquet to celebrate a new alliance, Chiyome contemplates murder, and discovers a new servant.

(Teen assassin, historical fiction, love in a time of war, Japan)

Extract:

The Way of the Warrior, Chiyome knew, teaches that one must fight without anger and kill without hatred. That a warrior must act always out of duty and never out of personal need. She knew this because her mother had taught her so. She knew it because her father and her husband had died acting so. She knew it because because her annoying servants Mieko and Kuniko always seemed to act so.

And yet, staring across the shōgun’s banquet hall, all that Mochizuki Chiyome could think was that she hated Uesugi Kenshin; that she wanted to cut off the far-too-pretty lord’s nose, wanted to strangle him, wanted to rip out his heart.

She considered it a great act of restraint to have remained sitting through the long feast commemorating the new alliance.

Lord Uesugi leered at her, and her restraint shattered.

“Mieko?”

“My lady?”

Chiyome leaned closer to the young woman who looked like nothing so much as a perfectly sweet companion for a perfectly harmless old lady. “If I were to ask you to kill that insufferable fop Uesugi, could you do it?”*

Kunoichi Companion Tales

This is the fourth of the prequel stories to David Kudler’s historical novel Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

1. White Robes — Mired in her own grief, Lady Mochizuki Chiyome encounters two young women who give her a whole new, much more interesting opportunity (now available!)

2. Silk & Service — A young Takeda warrior meets a servant who is much more than she seems (now available!)

3. Waiting for Kuniko — Mieko is waiting at a rendezvous behind enemy lines. In the rain. Without a hat. The person who comes up the road is the last person she expected to encounter.

4. Wild Mushrooms — A Hōjō commander is delighted when two pretty young shrine maidens enter his camp on the evening before a battle. Perhaps he shouldn’t have been.

5. Ghost — At a banquet to celebrate a new alliance, Chiyome contemplates murder, and discovers a new servant 

6. Schools for Talented Youngsters: Monthly Headmistresses’ Dinner — Three unique ladies get together once a month to share the joys and challenges involved teaching young ladies with very particular… talents. (Historical fantasy/crossover)

Coming soon: Shining Boy — Plucked off of the streets of the capital, an orphan girl tries to figure out what story she’s wandered into

Coming soon: Blade — Toumi doesn’t want anyone messing with her business

Coming soon: Little Brother — Returning to the monastery turns out to be as hard as leaving it was

Leseprobe

Ghost

Kunoichi Companion Tales #3

(A Seasons of the Sword Prequel)

by

David Kudler

Stillpoint/Atalanta

Stillpoint Digital Press

Mill Valley, California, USA

Copyright © 2016 by David Kudler

All right reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, or other—without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. For more information, contact the publisher at

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First edition, December 2016

Version 1.1 (PublishDrive)

Risuko news subscribers and Kickstarter backers get exclusive early access to the Kunoichi Companion Tales, a series of exciting prequel stories by Risuko author David Kudler that introduce characters and themes from the Seasons of the Sword novels!

There are six planned stories:

Kunoichi Companion Tales

White Robes

— Mired in her own grief, Lady Mochizuki Chiyome encounters two young women who give her a whole new, much more interesting opportunity

Silk & Service

— A young Takeda warrior meets a servant who is much more than she seems

Ghost

— At a banquet to celebrate a new alliance, Chiyome contemplates murder, and discovers a new servant

Shining Boy

— Plucked off of the streets of the capital, an orphan girl tries to figure out what story she’s wandered into

Blade —

Toumi doesn’t want anyone messing with her business

Little Brother

— Returning to the monastery turns out to be as hard as leaving it was

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Also by David Kudler

The Seven Gods of Luck

Shlomo Travels to Warsaw

How Raven Brought Back the Light

Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale (now available)

Samurai, Assassins, Warlords...

and a Girl Who Likes to Climb

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.

Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is.

(Teen historical adventure novel)

Coming Soon!

Bright-Eyes(Seasons of the Sword #2)

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Ghost: A Dream of Murder

The Way of the Warrior, Chiyome knew, teaches that one must fight without anger and kill without hatred. That a warrior must act always out of duty and never out of personal need. She knew this because her mother had taught her so. She knew it because her father and her husband had died acting so. She knew it because because her annoying servants Mieko and Kuniko always seemed to act so.

And yet, staring across the shōgun's banquet hall, all that Mochizuki Chiyome could think was that she hated Uesugi Kenshin; that she wanted to cut off the far-too-pretty lord's nose, wanted to strangle him, wanted to rip out his heart.

She considered it a great act of restraint to have remained sitting through the long feast commemorating the new alliance.

Lord Uesugi leered at her, and her restraint shattered.

“Mieko?”

“My lady?”