Author Description

Kumori Ashina is the most skilled and deadly member of her samurai clan, a group that has survived in secrecy for two centuries. For Clan Ashina, assignments are accepted only if they reflect the samurai code of honor. Or so Kumori''s always thought. Lately, she doubts the motives of the Clan and struggles between her duty and her sense of honor. Until, on a key assignment to assassinate an American vigilante, Kumori fails. She refuses to follow through with the Clan's wishes - she refuses to kill. Now, as previously undiscovered abilities begin to rise up within her, Kumori finds herself struggling along the razor's edge of the samurai, struggling to find balance between family and honor, duty and integrity.