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In the Service of Samurai
In the Service of Samurai
In the Service of Samurai
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In the Service of Samurai

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The samurai smelled of the sea...

For the first time in his life, Toshi discovers that monsters do roam the earth. And this one has come for him.
Dragged from his home and into the company of the undead, Toshi must use his skills to help the creatures holding him hostage. The alternative is to fail and become one of them.

But those who do not wish his new master's quest to succeed may make Toshi one of the truly dead before they will allow him to do what only he can do to help.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 12, 2023
ISBN9781612710556
In the Service of Samurai
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Gloria Oliver

Gloria Oliver lives in Texas, making sure to stay away from rolling tumbleweeds while bowing to the never-ending wishes of her feline and canine masters. She works fulltime shoveling numbers around for an oil-and-gas company and squeezes in some writing time when she can.Alien Redemption is Gloria’s first science fiction novel. This is also her eighth book to see publication. Her previous works have been fantasy, urban fantasy, and young adult fantasy novels. Several contain romantic and mystery elements. Her short stories of speculative fiction can be found in all manner of anthologies, covering things from the fantastic and strange to a Bubba Apocalypse.Gloria is a member in good standing of BroadUniverse, although she has yet to make the list for Cat Slaves ‘R’ Us. In her spare time, (what's that?) she watches TV shows, movies, and anime, plays PC games, as well as reads, as well as tinkering/maintaining multiple people’s websites.For some free reading—novel-related short stories, sample chapters—an appearance schedule, and more information on her and her works, please visit her at www.gloriaoliver.com

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    In a medieval Japanese village, a powerful samurai kidnaps a fifteen-year-old mapmaker. The hapless young boy, Chizuson Toshiro, is thereby thrust into a world honeycombed with riddles and undergirded with darkness. Virtually everyone Toshi meets for the next 300 pages of this novel is a ghost. In Service of the Samurai is a neatly spun fantasy in which a young boy comes of age in old Japan in the midst of an extraordinary journey. As the masked geisha, Miro, slowly gets a grip on Toshi’s heart, he finds himself beginning to care about his captors. Stockholm syndrome or not, they redeem themselves by giving Toshi a chance to choose his own path and make his own life. At its core, In Service of the Samurai is a classic mythic story about a hero’s journey. It is a minutely imagined fantasy that transports readers to a highly nuanced world. The pacing is not for those who like a plot that whisks along. But for my money, this is a story worth the reading.

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