Welcome to my world of novels and let's start with this exciting news: Book Two of the The Sadamune Blades Trilogy has been published! Working on Book Three.

The Sadamune Blades, Book One: REVENGE!

Set in the Edo period of 17th century Japan, this action filled adventure features Aki Hiroda, a playful, young girl who turns into a formidable shadow warrior after spending five years in training to return home and is eventually forced to avenge the murder of her parents. Cared for by her mother's former lover, Sadamune, Aki continues to fulfil her assignments, each one moving her closer to discovering who her parents murderers were. 

If you like stories of 17th century Japan, samurai, shoguns, ninja, swords and a strong, formidable female character, skilled in weaponry, stealth, disguise and seduction, then this is a book for you!

The Sadamune Blades, Book Two:
BLOOD NEGOTIATOR

Aki Hiroda, The Ghost, continues on her shadow warrior path working for Lord Ieyasu Tokugawa as he retires from being Shogun, to Ogosho, Retired Shogun. He has ordered her to be his personal assassin and blood negotiator. 

As Ieyasu works behind the scenes to help his son establish the Tokugawa regime, Aki is sent on missions of rescue, assassination, espionage and more. This is a time of Portuguese meddling in state affairs, enslaving and selling young Japanese women and converting even samurai to the Christian faith.

The Dutch traders arrive followed by the English who build their warehouses at Hirado just when the Portuguese are banned from trading with Japan and the persecution of the Christian faithful is increased as depicted in Martin Scorsese's film (2017) Silence .

Sent on a mission to investigate the Christian movement, when Aki kills a priest, her life changes. Aki questions her own faith and wrestles with retiring to a life of peace and solitude, deciding between two lovers, and planning a family of her own - but someone is hunting for her. 

The Sadamune Blades, Book Three:
SWORDS OF FATE

SWORDS OF FATE continues the story of Aki Hiroda and  Captain Jan de Jager in this compelling final installment of The Sadamune Blades Trilogy.

Follow the Hiroda family and their descendants across three-hundred years from Edo era Japan to World War Two, to the present day. 

The outlawed Hiroda’s fight off government soldiers sent to Hirado to capture them. They travel to Kyoto during the great famine to find their daughter, Aka. After a chance meeting with 
a former government official, they change their name to his and embark on a mercantile adventure to become one of Japan’s foremost traders in Japanese swords. 

A love affair gone wrong ignites a vendetta that pursues the family, generation after generation. All the while, the family, now called, Sakai, continue to grow and prosper. Female  descendants linked by blood to Aki Hiroda are sworn to become shadow warriors and protect the family sword, The Soul Taker.

During World War Two, Captain Keisuke Sakai carries The Soul Taker into battle, losing it to a vicious POW camp commander in the Philippines. After the war the remaining direct descendant is sworn to find and repatriate the family heirloom. In 2002, The  Soul Taker surfaces at a sword auction in London. The last descendant, Yasuko Sakai, a sword appraiser and assassin, is obligated to find the blade. Standing in her way is a timeworn vendetta, a crime boss, a devious sword collector and a crooked cop. Any one of them would kill to own the Sadamune blade, including the sword appraiser.