Risuko (Seasons of the Sword Book 1)

Can One Girl Win A War?Tenth Anniversary Edition — with new author essays on the history behind the seriesIn the chaos of Japan's century-long civil war, young Risuko is sold to the legendary Lady Chiyome and taken to a remote mountain school. There she's trained alongside other girls in skills no one will explain — cooking, dancing, spying — for a purpose she's not meant to understand. But Risuko is a climber. She goes where she's not supposed to go. And what she discovers will thrust her into