Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

Arizona, 1944. Elinor Powell, a Black Army nurse, is assigned to care for Nazi prisoners—a job deemed too good for her to do for white American soldiers. Frederick Albert, a German POW and jazz-loving artist, sees her across the mess hall and declares, "I'm the man who's going to marry you." Against military law, Jim Crow racism, and two nations at war, they fall in love. Their forbidden romance would cost them everything—and prove that love can survive even the cruelest divides.

Three words: "You're mine now" uttered by Marine Private Steven Simms to Akiko Yamamoto, a Japanese POW, spoken behind barbed wire in 1945 would take five years, four rejected petitions and a change in Federal law to keep

Seven Army and Navy nurses arrive in Manila in 1941 expecting a peaceful posting. Within weeks, Pearl Harbor changes everything. As Bataan and Corregidor fall, they retreat into jungle hospitals, then Malinta Tunnel, then nearly three years of internment at Santo Tomas and Los Baños—starved, exhausted, and still nursing. One of them will not survive to see the dawn raid that finally sets them free. A tribute to the real Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, and what survival actually cost.

Texas, 1943. Seven women from different worlds arrive at Avenger Field with one shared dream: to fly for their country. Through brutal training, discrimination, and tragedy, Bay A becomes a sisterhood forged in fire. They prove women can fly anything—P-51 Mustangs, B-25 bombers, impossible missions. But when one of them dies and the program is disbanded, they face a devastating question: Did any of it matter? Based on the true story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots who flew, served, and were

Fourteen-year-old Ayo flees forced marriage and joins Dahomey's legendary Agojie warriors. The initiation wall takes her breasts. Training takes her innocence. War takes her humanity. She rises through the ranks through brilliance and brutality. Falls in love with a fellow warrior. Learns that in this system, caring means losing. And discovers the strongest prison is the one we build ourselves.

Hyo Rin arrives at the Joseon court at eighteen with a broken marriage and a palace full of watchers. What she builds inside those walls — through silence, strategy, and a love she can never speak aloud — will shape a dynasty. Behind the painted screen, everything visible is fiction. Everything real is hers.

In the imperial court of Heian Japan, words are everything — and nothing is ever said plainly. When a lady-in-waiting begins delivering the Empress's secret poems to a nobleman, she discovers the brilliant replies belong not to him but to his sister, a woman hidden behind a borrowed name for sixteen years. Their correspondence becomes two conversations layered inside one. A romance written entirely in ink and metaphor — between two women who can never meet. Until they must.

Johnny Whitaker, a 16 year-old orphaned Settler in 1860 Fort Laramie frees Winona, a 15 year-old Lakota Indian girl from white slavers. Follow their story as they trek 620 miles of Nebraska Territory wilderness, fall in love and return her to her people.

K-pop star Luna buys a French château for solace. Instead, she wakes 450-year-old vampire Lucian—and kicks him in the groin. Forced into a fake relationship by her label, pretend becomes real. But his psychotic ex returns after 170 years, and she's not sharing. Luna must fight for forever with a dead man or die trying. Dark rom-com meets brutal vampire horror. Where love conquers death, and immortality looks like Kate Beckinsale with almond eyes.

Selene's Slayer Tour is breaking records—and vampire tradition. Her provocative performances, baby-fang transformations, and unapologetic sexuality have made her a global icon. But the ancient Vampire Councils are furious. When they summon her to Paris to answer for "conduct unbecoming," Selene refuses to apologize. Instead, she plans the ultimate revenge: a spectacular trap that will silence her critics forever. With her devoted mate Lucian by her side, Selene proves that modern vampires don't