White Robes E-Book

David Kudler

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

Seitenzahl: 26

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

One of history’s most amazing armies is born —

And its soldiers wear silk robes

Lady Mochizuki Chiyome is mired in grief. Recently widowed by Japan’s endless civil war, she has become tired of mourning, tired of wearing the white robes that are the traditional Japanese garb of grief. On the road, she encounters two young women who open her eyes to a whole new purpose in life — and a new way to end Japan's century of bloodshed.

(Historical adventure short story.)

This is the first of the Kunoichi Companion Tales, 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 (now available!)

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 — now available!)

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

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White Robes

Kunoichi Companion Tales

(A Risuko Prequel)

by

David Kudler

Stillpoint/Atalanta

WHITE ROBES: An Unusual Army

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

[email protected]

First edition, July 2016

Version 1.0.2 (Amazon)

ISBN 9781370019670

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

Schools for Gifted Youngsters: Monthly Headmistresses’ Meeting

— Assassination. Espionage. Theft. Across the ages, the headmistresses of three very unusual schools (along with their very unusual students) share a meal

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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NOTE: In Japan, as in most of East Asia, a person’s family name goes before the given name. In the following story, for example, Kano Murasaki is a girl named Murasaki from the Kano family.

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