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. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn’t possible have the power to change the outcome. Disappoint me, and you will be very, very sorry.Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. 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. Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Squirrel. That I can be a very special kind of woman. My nation has been at war for a hundred years, Serenity is under attack and the Kano family is in disgrace, but some people think that I can bring victory. I am from Serenity Province, though I was not born there. My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Risuko.
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