The Shogun's Queen: The Shogun Quartet, Book 1 (Shogun Quartet 1)

The year is 1853, and a young Japanese girl?

s world is about to be turned upside down.

When black ships carrying barbarians arrive on the shores of Japan, the Satsuma clan?

s way of life is threatened.

But it?

s not just the samurai who must come together to fight: the beautiful, headstrong Okatsu is also given a new destiny by her feudal lord ?

to save the realm.

Armed only with a new name, Princess Atsu, as she is now known, journeys to the women?

s palace of Edo Castle, a place so secret it cannot be marked on any map.

Behind the palace?

s immaculate fa?

ade, amid rumours of murder and whispers of ghosts, Atsu must uncover the secret of the man whose fate, it seems, is irrevocably linked to hers ?

the shogun himself ?

if she is to rescue her people .

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