Drama

Miyamoto Musashi claimed sixty duels and no defeats. Each chapter is told by one of the men who lost to him, from a tired traveling swordsman in 1596 to the heirs of Kyoto's greatest school.

In a walled city where every step between sectors costs hours of labor, sixteen-year-old Mina forges the hours, until she learns the brother she mourned is one of the Wardens hunting forgers.

Kenshin, seventeen, the last son of the Kuroda clan, trains to destroy the Akagi who burned his village, not knowing his own father started the war.

Kai, sixteen, is the deckhand on the 11:40 ferry across Kasumi Bay. Some passengers cast no shadow under the deck lamps: they are dead and don't know it yet. The captain's one rule is never tell them. Two years ago Kai told his little sister.