The Kunoichi's Awakening transports readers to feudal Japan's turbulent Sengoku period, where ten-year-old Yukiko is plucked from her samurai household by a mysterious nun. Claiming the girl possesses rare gifts for shadow warfare, the enigmatic woman spirits Yukiko away to be trained in the deadly arts of espionage-just as Japan's age of honorable combat gives way to an era where subterfuge reigns supreme.
The Kunoichi's Awakening transports readers to feudal Japan's turbulent Sengoku period, where ten-year-old Yukiko is plucked from her samurai household by a mysterious nun. Claiming the girl possesses rare gifts for shadow warfare, the enigmatic woman spirits Yukiko away to be trained in the deadly arts of espionage-just as Japan's age of honorable combat gives way to an era where subterfuge reigns supreme.