Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

A celebrated geiko is sold to a samurai—full price, no haggling. She expects a gilded cage. Instead, Fuyuki Kazuma hands her a blade and asks her to defend herself, even against him. What follows is a rare marriage built on trust: he teaches her to fight; she teaches herself to stop kneeling. When enemies mistake her for merely decorative, they learn otherwise in blood. A story of a woman who refused to choose between grace and danger—and found she never had to.

A Mongol princess captured in a Jin border raid. A Jin emperor's daughter tasked with civilizing her enemy. What begins as captivity becomes love—until the Mongols take Zhangdu and everything reverses. Now the Jin princess must adapt or die, becoming war counselor to the Khan who destroyed her empire. Two women. Two cultures. Two captivities. One love that survives conquest, betrayal, and the fall of dynasties to find peace on the steppes.

She was born without a name that was truly hers. She lived without a face the world was permitted to see. History would remember her as one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean — but no one knew she was a woman until a Jamaican courtroom erupted in chaos in 1720. This is Mary Read's story. In her own words. Written by a dying female pirate with three days, a decent nib, and one final act of defiance. The truth. Before the fever wins.

A story in the The Supergirls Universe Universe
At twelve years old, Amara Dube, an IQ of 165, is the youngest student ever admitted to the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences. She is also being sold. When a wealthy traditionalist arranges a child marriage for his son's genetic legacy, one formidable neurosurgeon — armed with a power of attorney and twenty years of fury — stands between Amara and everything trying to claim her.

Black, beautiful, and deadly as a black mamba — Afro-Iranian princess Ma Mei-Lin was not meant to be taken. But they netted her like an animal and sold her across the Silk Road to the Emperor of China's Panther House. She challenged him to a duel the same week. He won. She kept her word. What neither of them expected was everything that followed. Delicious Poison — the most dangerous thing in the Panther House was never the leopard.

Captain Zhang Mei, elite PLA special forces, touches an ancient jade brooch in a Himalayan cave and wakes in 221 BCE—chosen as consort to Prince Liang, the Qin Dynasty's black sheep general. She makes him a vow: "I'll be your blade, not your toy." Together they revolutionize warfare using her modern tactics, surviving poisonings and court intrigue orchestrated by the Crown Prince. When she finds the brooch that could take her home, Mei faces an impossible choice: return to 2025's safety, or stay

In the Panjshir Valley, 1983, Zala Sadat learns to kill the way her father taught her to hunt: necessary, patient, never wasted. When a Soviet marksman is sent to find her, an unlikely correspondence unfolds in near-misses and left-behind brass, two patient killers reading each other across empty ridges. Command wants results, and restraint has a cost. When grief breaks hers, only one truth remains: better him than me. A quiet, devastating story of duty and the mountain that outlasts them both.

Northern California, 1870. The Yahi people are nearly gone — twenty-two survivors hiding in the hills above a young rancher's land. Three women walk through his gate with an impossible request: become their husband, father their children, save what remains of their people. What follows is not an arrangement. It becomes love. It becomes family. It becomes everything. History cannot be outrun. But it can be remembered.

The Perkin"s Ranch is going bankrupt in 1939. Despite improving economy coming out of the Great Depression, for some, it's too late. Emma Perkins is basically being sold by her father into marriage to pay off his debts and receive 2 years living expenses. Sometimes, happiness comes from terrible events

A brutal, sophisticated, tragic tale of power, emptiness, and the monsters we make—including ourselves.