The Birth of Steel and Vengeance

By: Nakano, Sumiko

Daughters of Wars: Steel and Vengeance
A Daughters of Wars Novel - Book One

Japan, 1867.
The Shogunate is splintering. The Emperor rises. The old ways are bleeding out-and with them, everything once sacred.

Far from the capital, in the shadow of a forgotten lake, lies Kasumigaura, a village where the world still breathes in sword strokes and silence. It's here the Hayashi sisters are raised-not as ornaments, but as weapons. Trained in war. Schooled in honor. Bound in blood.

Sumiko, the eldest, speaks only with her eyes and her blade.
Misako, the middle, burns with unyielding fire.
Aiko, the youngest, walks softly but never blindly. Every step is deliberate. Every arrow, a decision.

Their father, once a retainer of Aizu, turned his back on politics to raise them in peace. But history doesn't care about peace-and neither does war. When men in imperial uniforms arrive under false pretenses, steel unsheathes. By morning, Kasumigaura burns. And Aiko is gone.

What follows is the breaking of everything they believed in.
A search becomes a reckoning.
Honor turns to vengeance.
And the sisters-once daughters of a hidden samurai-are forced to choose between what they were taught and what must now be done.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FX47XHGG
• ISBN13: 9798232872007
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Sumiko Nakano Ltd.
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"