Publisher Description
Not all assassins wear black—some come wearing silk.
A young Takeda warrior meets a servant who is much more than she seems. And teaches him what a warrior truly can be.
This is the second of six Kunoichi Companion Tales, prequel stories to David Kudler’s historical novel Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale.
- 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—When Lady Chiyome receives a note from the shōgun, she finds that the messenger is much more intriguing than the message
- 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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About David Kudler
David Kudler is an author, editor, and publisher living just north of San Francisco, California with his wife, teacher/author Maura Vaughn, his author-to-be daughters, and their (apparently) non-literary cats. He is best known as the editor of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. His children’s picture book The Seven Gods of Luck was adapted from a Japanese folktale. Two books that he edited for Joseph Campbell Foundation (Sake & Satori and Myths of Light) explore Japanese mythology and religion. He has written about places other than Japan—but his imagination keeps returning to the Land of the Rising Sun.