Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

The yoshi-engumi system allows merchant wealth to buy samurai status—through daughters. Mio is adopted, transformed, married off, and forbidden from ever seeing her birth parents again. One mistake exposing her origins destroys everything. So she performs perfection while secretly wielding the skills that make her valuable: negotiation, strategy, steel. When her new mother-in-law attacks and bandits strike, Mio proves merchant daughters make the most dangerous samurai wives.

Most of the world was not aware of the racial discrimination and genocide by light-skinned blacks against dark-skinned or ink-black Africans. This story tells of the dream of a young ink-black girl who had a dream, and her journey to make it come to life.

When a wounded American pilot crashes near her farm in occupied France, widow Clarice Deveroux risks everything to hide him. Through five months in a cheese cellar during the siege of Dunkirk, survival becomes friendship, friendship becomes love, and two broken hearts discover that God's tender mercies arrive exactly when needed most.

A story in the Daughters of the Line Universe
When a burning bomber crashes at the edge of a WAAF airfield, medical orderly Vera Ashworth doesn't stop to think—she runs toward it. What follows is thirty seconds that will define her: a trapped pilot, bombs still live in the wreckage, and a choice made not in her mind but in her body, before fear has time to catch up. A short, true-hearted story about the quiet shape of courage—and what it costs to be called a hero for doing the only thing you knew how to do.

A lonely bitter Montana rancher finds, a lone injured 4 year-old Indian girl, a survivor of a raid that killed her entire famiy. he takes her home and decides to adopt her. This one act changes the course of four lives.

Ireland, 983 AD. Princess Saoirse doesn't know she's royalty—the monks who raised her kept that secret. When Vikings raid her monastery, she's sold as a slave in Dublin and brought to the Danish royal court. Prince Sweyn Forkbeard claims her at a winter feast. She refuses him, choosing to freeze on his balcony rather than submit. Intrigued by her defiance, he offers her something no slave should have: choices. Over months of patient courtship, she becomes his translator, his advisor, his partner

a fictional tale from the life of real-life hero First Lieutenant Kirstie Ennis, On 23 June 2012, the CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter carrying U.S. Marines on which she was a door gunner crashed in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.

A story in the The Supergirls Universe Universe
Park Soo Yee is eleven years old, has an IQ of 150, and just watched her brilliant sister get rejected from every Ivy League school she applied to. The reason wasn't her grades. It wasn't her record. It was a number — assigned by a stranger who never met her, in a column with no criteria and no appeal. The truth was hiding in a federal court database that anyone could access. Nobody had bothered to look. Soo Yee looked.

In 1857 Georgia, sixteen-year-old Johnny Brighton receives an unconscionable birthday gift — a fifteen-year-old girl named Naomi, given to him as property. But Johnny sees not property. He sees the girl he loves. What follows is a thousand mile trek through enemy territory, hunted by professionals, sustained by an underground network of souls who believe that love and freedom are the same word. Some journeys change everything.

Megumi Kashuahara was a Colorado rancher's daughter. From the age of 8, her grandfather a highly decorated Vietnam sniper began teaching her the skills to become a sniper. Follow Megumi's story as she progresses from putting meat on her family's table and killing predators that endanger their herds to making the longest recorded sniper shot in history.