The Blood Samurai series: The Complete Genpei War series Box Set by Lynn Francis (#1-3 & Prequel)
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Overview: An emperor’s wraith from the grave that would see the fall of a dynasty and the rise of the samurai. Riku has unknowingly inherited a powerful ability from his mother: the ability to share his body with a demon and survive. Now, a dark enemy wants to use that power to his own ends. Whether Riku likes it or not. When disaster strikes the shrine, Riku is forced down a path that the monks who raised him fought to prevent. Will he be able to uncover the secrets to his family’s past and finally understand his true destiny? The Blood Samurai looks at the Genpei War through the legend of it resulting from Sutoku’s revenge.
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Prequel: The Kitsune Trap
When a small boy is neglected by everyone at court but the nine tailed fox in disguise Tamamo-no-Mae, the seeds are sown for the revenge and creation of one of Japan’s most devastating Yokai.
Prince Akihito just wants to be accepted. As the next emperor of Japan the small child should be dotted upon and idolized. The true nature of his birth means his “father” the emperor openly dislikes the child and the entire court follows suit.
Everyone that is except for the emperor’s favorite consort, the beautiful Tamamo-no-Mae, a woman so beautiful and talented that she can not be human.
Together the two inadvertently start the young boy down a path that would lead to the rise and fall of his powers and a pack with Shinigami that will be felt throughout Japan for all time.
1. Winds of Retribution
A ghost of a dead emperor, a young Samurai with an unknown past, and a monk with many secrets.
Japan, 1179. Young acolyte Riku has spent his life training for battle. Raised by the monks of his shrine, he has never known any other life. As he struggles to understand his connection to the kami, he suspects that his shrine is somehow different. But what are the monks not telling him?
Riku has unknowingly inherited a powerful ability from his mother: the ability to share his body with a demon and survive. Now, a dark enemy wants to use that power to his own ends. Whether Riku likes it or not.
When disaster strikes the shrine, Riku is forced down a path that the monks who raised him fought to prevent. Will he be able to uncover the secrets to his family’s past and finally understand his true destiny?
2. Reprisal’s Lair
A desire for revenge so strong that it would topple the Japanese imperial dynasty and usher in the rule of the Samurai.
1181 Japan. The country has begun a descent into a civil war that is tearing the country apart. Despite Taira victories, the Minamoto clan cling desperately to survival and continue to oppose the true power behind the child emperor, Kiyomori no Taira. Their lust and greed for power does not unnoticed by the yokai world as the land begins to spin into war.
With the demon Sutoku bonded with his young samurai host but thwarted by Riku’s own powers – making it so that he is unable to take complete control of the young samurai. As the powers that want Riku for evil race against those who would save him from the dark demon inside himself, Japan teeters on a war that will change it’s very history.
3. Blade of Retribution
An emperor’s wraith from the grave that would see the fall of a dynasty and the rise of the samurai.
1183 Japan. At great cost to his soul and sanity, Riku believes he has the demon Sutoku under control. With the aid of the witch Takiyasha hime the demon Sutoku is no longer a separate presence but a part of Riku – a part that demands the blood of those he seeks his vengeance upon.
The war that had been brewing has been in stalemate and a supernatural famine is tearing apart the land. Before it reaches it’s breaking point the Taira move against the Minamoto and the Minamoto will be ready.
For they have also made a pack for power and as betrayal after betrayal comes, the dark forces that threaten to consume the land grow stronger and stronger. Will Riku be able to overcome his past and stop both his and his country’s descent into madness?
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