While visiting the seifa utaki, the foremost sacred grove of Okinawa, the young woman Miwako is drawn into a cave and called into her power while the earth quakes beneath her. Miwako, who was born on Kudaka...

Night after night, Elva steps forth into the black sea, sword in hand, to drive back the creatures that surge from the waves. Elva is one of the "kannagi," warrior priests chosen by the divine to protect the...

Sharan, a slave of the Valdek Empire, longs for nothing more than to buy her freedom and return to her homeland. But after a fearsome encounter with the cursed emperor, Julian Vadenberg, she ends up as his...