In an age where emperors rule from gilded palaces and shadows hide blades sharper than loyalty, six rival kingdoms divide the land of ancient Japan. Power is traded through marriages, assassinations, secrets whispered behind silk screens, and wars that bloom like red flowers across the fields.Far from the politics of emperors lives a boy on a quiet farm with his grandmother—beautiful enough to stop strangers in their tracks, innocent enough to believe the world is kinder than it truly is.But beauty is dangerous.One night riders arrive at the farm, carrying the authority of a kingdom.And from that moment, the boy’s life is pulled into a world of wandering samurai, lonely princes, drunken emperors, masked assassins, mountain tribes, and gods who walk the earth disguised as men.In the Six Kingdoms, love can be salvation…or the most dangerous weakness of all.
