Reincarnates: Die Without Sin

By Christopher Stephen Belton

A contemporary-fantasy adventure set in modern Japan

Sixteen lives, one final chance to keep the peace between worlds.

Fourteen-year-old Kenta Oda thinks Sunday mornings are for video games-until a child-sized spirit materializes in his bedroom and only he can see it. Moments later he learns an impossible truth: he and classmate Misaki Shimizu have already been born sixteen times. Because each of their deaths was "without sin," nature has granted them another life-and, at last, the right to know the hidden rules that bind humanity to Japan's mythic creatures.

Under the mentorship of the enigmatic Takashi Nakazawa, Kenta and Misaki plunge into a realm where tengu plot rebellions, kappa pilot subterranean craft, and a single missing treaty holds back a war that could tear the country in two. To prevent catastrophe they must decode a 1,000-year-old cipher concealed in the famous Iroha poem, outwit a rogue daitengu, and trust allies who shape-shift, vanish, or exist only between heartbeats.

But every reincarnation carries a weight of past misdeeds, and one wrong choice in this life could be their last.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6MLXLNH
• ISBN13: 9798281472814
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"