Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

At five, Princess Kim So Yeon escaped assassination with nothing but a farm girl's promise to keep her safe. At thirteen, she returns — changed, hardened, and ready. But the enemies who drove her out still lurk behind palace smiles. Her only weapon? Jo Soo. A farmer's daughter who can't be bought, fooled, or intimidated. Crown Prince Yi Joon has waited eight summers. So has the danger. The oath was made in a wildflower field. Now it must be kept in a court that wants her dead.

When Private First Class Kirsti Duncan arrives at Forward Operating Base Vanguard, the men give her a broken hut, a quiet corner, and two weeks before she cracks. They are wrong about all of it. On her first full day, she spots what every drone and every sergeant missed — and when the attack comes before dawn, she makes a choice that will cost her everything except her life. A story about what it means to hold the line when no one believes you're capable of holding anything at all.

Fourteen-year-old Zoey was standing in her bedroom doorway, wearing nothing but those ridiculous Tweedy slippers. Her left hand was raised above her head, propped against the door jamb, and from that hand, a single strand of 3/8-inch sisal rope hung in spirals to the floor. “Come on,” she said. “Tie me up.”

Sometimes, a moment of arrogance can reveal a truth no one saw coming. This was true for the school district of Oak Ridge Elementary school at a parent/Teachers meeting over a new controversial children's martial arts class

A Red Ribbon Univrrse Story
She was nine years old, poor, and hungry herself. He was ten, dying slowly outside her school fence. She gave him her only meal anyway. Every day. For six months. He made her a promise the day he left. Twenty-two years later, he kept it. A story about what happens when one child with nothing chooses to see another child with less — and changes the world.

Me and Jimmy have been best buds since we were six. When I turned fourteen, everything changed... Note**Several codes have been withheld to protect the plot

She walked into the briefing room and nobody looked twice. That was exactly how she wanted it. Staff Sergeant Tala Nez, call sign Shadow Wolf, is a Marine Scout Sniper whose classified record hides a capability that has kept her alive through seven deployments. Attached to an elite Green Beret unit in Afghanistan, she is about to face her most dangerous mission yet — not from the enemy outside the wire, but from the traitor within it. Seventy-three confirmed kills. Zero missed shots. One ancient

Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Sarah Mitchell volunteers for the most dangerous mission of her career: go undercover to expose a predatory network that has assaulted seventeen women at Naval Air Station Fallon. The cost? Enduring the same brutal assault to gather irrefutable evidence. But the conspiracy runs deeper than anyone suspected—reaching to the highest levels of military justice. 1 operator, 17 silenced victims. A family protecting predators for six years. Justice always demands a price.

The passionate forbidden love between a British Duke and a beautiful Calcutta Temptress in the 1860's

A story of two sisters who both became consorts to the same Joseon prince, both elevated beyond their station, both genuinely loved by a man who chose them for who they were. One brilliant and brief. One quiet and enduring. Both essential to the tapestry of a family built from loss.