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NASTIA: Twin Shadows
Book One of the Nastia Chronicles
She was born in France. She was forged in Japan. And she was never meant to survive the night her family died.
When the Kuroyuri Kai - an opium syndicate built from ronin, smugglers, and corrupt officials - slaughtered her parents and dragged her twin sister into the dark, six-year-old Nastia Delacroix-Yamashiro should have died in the snow beside them. Instead, an old, widowed samurai named Ittō Kagerō found her. Raised her. Trained her.
Sixteen years later, Japan is changing. The shogunate has fallen. Swords are outlawed in the streets of Tokyo. But beneath the modernizing nation, an older world is waking up - nine mythic sword-clans, each descended from gods and monsters carried across the sea, guard a power that predates the empire itself. And the hidden Reino de los Asuras - a kingdom of demigods - believes the chaos of the Meiji Restoration is finally their chance to claim it.
With Kaze, a shinobi she once saved from death, at her side, Nastia is drawn into a war she never chose - one that will force her to master forbidden sword styles, face down fallen angels who serve no one, and confront the syndicate that destroyed her family.
But nothing prepares her for the masked warrior she meets in battle. A blade as fast as her own. A fighting style that feels like home.
A sister she was never supposed to find - on the wrong side of the war.
⚔️ Twin blades. Twin fates. One truth neither of them is ready to speak.