![]() ![]() Cat soon engages in battle, managing to defeat her attackers but significantly raising the price on her head. The Tokaido Road, which is littered with pilgrims, peasants, samurai, spies, and a vast assortment of rogues, acts as the perfect training ground for the haughty but inexperienced girl. Thrown out of her comfortable home, the beautiful teen-ager becomes a courtesan in the pleasure houses of Edo to support her mother, adopts the nickname ""Cat,"" and bides her time-until the night she cuts her hair short, disguises herself as a priest, and starts off on the Tokaido Road to Kyoto, where she hopes to join with her father's former supporters in an uprising against Kira. ![]() ![]() Nineteen-year-old Lady Asano, illegitimate daughter of a Japanese nobleman, has been gently raised, but she is not unprepared for the rough turn her life takes when-thanks to an altercation with the powerful Lord Kira-her father is forced to commit suicide. Robson turns from westerns (Light a Distant Fire, 1988, etc.) to feudal Japan in her first hard-cover-a richly detailed saga of one woman's quest to avenge her father's death. ![]()
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