Dragonfly Trilogy by Elizabeth Ann Boyles (#1-2)
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Overview: Elizabeth Ann Boyles delights readers with unusual stories of adventure and romance, set in the mid-nineteenth century Japan. She gained a love for the Far East when she lived in Japan in her twenties, teaching English in several universities and leading exploratory Bible studies. Much of Elizabeth Ann’s life has been spent in building relationships with her international students at a Christian university in the Dallas area. When she has time, she loves to read about Asia in history texts and novels. Although Elizabeth Ann’s great-great-uncle, John Greer Walsh, was the first U.S. consul to Nagasaki and her great-grandfather participated in the trading firm of Walsh, Hall & Co., she had no interest in Japan until she was given the opportunity to represent a Christian organization there. She found the Far East to be like a second home. She also met her missionary husband in Japan, and they were married in a bilingual ceremony in Tokyo. Elizabeth Ann and her husband live in a suburb of Dallas. They cherish the opportunities to get together with their two grown children and their wonderful grandkids.
Genre: Historical Fiction
1. The Year of the Barbarian
A New York merchant risks all. A samurai’s daughter seeks truth. Pitfalls lie ahead in mid-nineteenth-century Japan.
Sumi Taguchi, a samurai’s daughter, eagerly anticipates the arrival of foreigners from the West, who will end Japan’s centuries-long isolation from the world. Maybe these foreigners will bring answers to life’s troublesome riddles. But to be free to meet these newcomers, she must first avoid a nightmarish betrothal and the fallout from her rash curiosity.
The young New York merchant, John Cardiff, risks his inheritance by sailing to the far side of the world. His fascination with Japan leads to a tantalizing, but dangerous trading venture. As trouble mounts, he dreads the shipwreck of not only his sail ship but his life.
2. Dragonfly Wings
Deadly conspiracies and thorny Japanese traditions war against an American diplomat and a samurai’s daughter. Can their budding romance survive?
Finally, in 1859, the Americans have cracked open Nagasaki’s centuries-old isolation. Sumi Taguchi, the daughter of a samurai, can hardly wait to investigate the outside world. But if she pursues her desires, she must disobey her family’s elder and accept the dangerous consequences. Yet what can she do when her heart says to hold on?
John Cardiff, Nagasaki’s first American consul, aims to make a fortune and marry his New York fiancée. But first, he must establish his trading company and navigate the strange culture. He expected his stay in Japan to be eye-opening and adventurous, but he didn’t plan on an irresistible draw toward the Japanese people and his tutor, Sumi.
An anti-foreign samurai threatens not only John and Sumi’s chance for romance but also their lives. Yet the fanatic may find his opponents are not the weaklings he imagined.
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