Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

Bavaria, 1945. Anna Hoffman surrenders to the U.S. Army with her toddler and a uniform that marks her as the enemy. Staff Sergeant Larry Jackson sees only a mother in need. What begins with quiet kindness grows, slowly and honestly, into a love neither the occupation's rules nor two grieving nations are ready for. A tender story of loss, forgiveness, and the language that finally lets two hearts speak the same truth.

In the spring of 1868, as the Shogunate collapses and three thousand women are expelled from Edo Castle, American silk trader Reggie Hemming spots a woman in blue and silver silk who stops him cold. Midori, the Shogun's former third concubine, is facing a world that has declared her obsolete. He follows her. She saves his life. He offers her a door, not a cage. What begins as survival becomes something neither of them planned for — a love built across two languages, two worlds, and one life

An American serviceman stationed in the Middle East yearning for a small Asian girl to love. A petite, slightly overweight Japanese girl with a terrible self-image longs for a guy to think she's pretty and worth loving. Both Christian, both pray. What's that the Bible says, "Ask and Ye shall receive?"

When a drunk driver destroys paralegal Ji-Eun Park's leg, attorney Brent Arnold refuses to walk away. Through agonizing recovery, brutal legal battles, and the fight to reclaim her independence, Ji-Eun discovers that rebuilding isn't about doing it alone—it's about finding someone who sees past the scars. A powerful story of resilience, justice, and the kind of love that stays when life gets hardest. Sometimes losing everything is just the beginning of finding what truly matters.

Shira Abrams was seven when her father began training her to kill. Forged in Israel's IDF and perfected in the U.S. Army, she becomes "Lilith"—one of the deadliest snipers in modern warfare. 96 confirmed kills across Iraq and Afghanistan. A Silver Star for heroism. A legend among Rangers. But after years of war, she faces her hardest mission: learning to be human again. Can a warrior choose peace when killing is all she knows?

Follow four young teenage girls in Japan whose lives are affected and shaped by bullying in the school system, and the Yakuza'a use of bullying to entrap kids right from the classroom. The facts about bullying and Yakuza's part are true. Warning: There are coerced actions as a result of bullying

A curse amended from the days of Zeus and , a curse of blessing to help the innocents of the early Lycans passed on through time. This time, to a lowly Omega

She made a promise at her father's grave — she would heal, never harm. For seven years and three deployments, Navy Corpsman Madison Veil kept it. Then came Mosul, a rifle in the dirt, and thirty-five seconds to decide. Now she carries two truths that will not reconcile: the promise she made, and the six lives she saved by breaking it. Some promises are not broken. They evolve. Madison's Promise is the story of how.

What if Carlos Hathcock had a counterpart in Vietnam he never knew existed? Marisol Cortez learned to shoot before she learned to read — first on a Guatemalan coffee farm, then as a teenage guerrilla sniper. In America she becomes a trauma nurse, then an Army officer with a secret: the CIA needs her rifle as much as her hands. Sent to hunt a sadistic sniper terrorizing Marines, she must trust that patience is the only weapon that matters.

In retaliation to the Great Raid of 1840, Comanches burned and sacked the town of Victoria, Texas. Mary Katherine Murphy was a 15 y.o. girl with brilliant copper red hair and pale skin living on a farm outside Victoria when they attacked. Her father and brother killed, the farm burned, and a warrior offered her the choice of life or death. This her story of her fate after she took the warrior's hand