About the Book: Akiyama Daijiro has been a samurai for half a year and left his father to start his own sword-school. When a mysterious samurai offers gold for an attack on a Shogun counsellor’s daughter, Daijiro, his father and female warrior Mifuyu become entangled in Edo-period Japan’s underworld. Conspiracy, honour, detective work and samurai code meet in this page-turning historical fiction full of intrigue