Novel in Progress
Mina
Retelling of a friendship between two legendary Japanese warriors.
When Mina, an orphan teen raised and trained in swordsplay by the temple monks, discovers a lady at the Taira court might be her mother, she leaves to find her place with her real family, only to be swept up in her half-brother’s battles to see the rise of his Minamoto clan, while abandoning her orphan friend Kei, who in turn disguises as a boy warrior, risking imprisonment, and joins the rise of an enigmatic warrior to find Mina and together shift the tide of the oppressive ruling Taira clan.
