Secret Samurai Trilogy: Book One, Tangled Lives

Two women samurai - two different centuries.Modern Englishwoman, Bebe Bell, is time-slipped into the mind of male samurai, Kai Matsuda, who is fighting in the civil war which changed Japan and the world. She lives parallel lives. One in today’s Japan with Kenji, the man she loves, unaware of the secret which is destroying him. The other with Kai, who is trying to change his country as it tears itself apart.Yoshi is an aristocratic woman who is forced to disguise herself as a male samurai in order to survive. This brings her influence and respect, something she has not experienced as a woman of the 1860’s. She is empowered by it and her ambitions grow ever larger.Yoshi and Kai meet, but are fighting on opposing sides and cannot admit their love for the other - and neither know that Bebe is in Kai’s mind.When these four lives intermingle …‘One of the seven must-read Japan related books… Jill Rutherford has established herself as a writer with great insight into Japanese culture and the power to deliver unique plots and marvellous characters’ Savvy Tokyo Magazine