Japan, 1577. Younger daughter of the area’s most prominent swordsmith, Sen’s life is marked with jealousy of her older sister’s love match, curiosity about her father’s secretive customers, and love as her family plans her next step to adulthood. When a high-ranking samurai visits her father to order a sword, Sen’s inquisitiveness lands her as an eyewitness to a murder and on the cusp of a plot that seeks the samurai’s demise. Will curiosity lead to her own death?
Reckoning
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