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Jan 24, 2019
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Takeo escapes death when his remote mountain village is slaughtered when he is taken in by Lord Otori Shigeru and made Shigeru's adopted son. The story is set in a world similar to, but not identical to, feudal Japan, and the story is awash in swords and vengeance and retribution and pacts and secrets. There's everything you'd want in a good story---mystery, intrigue, adventure, and romance. The sensory details of the world sweep the reader into the story so that you feel you can smell the perfu
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