Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

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.

Wyoming, 1860. Seized from a burning wagon train, Mary Ellen Cates is brought to a Shoshone camp for one purpose — to nurse a warrior's dying infant daughter. What begins as survival becomes something neither of them planned. Grey Wolf calls her Snow Bird. She calls his camp home. But the world outside the willows is closing in, and January 1863 is coming for everything they've built.

Iran already led the Middle East in underage marriages, but with Iranian government banks issuing loans for marriage expenses, underage marriage shyrocketed. What happens when a man tries to sell his fifteen year old daughter who is deaf, dumb and blind? Read on to see how this girl find happiness.

When Kiko confesses she's been in love with her stepsister Rin for six years, everything changes. The kiss that follows sends Rin spiraling—not with horror, but with recognition. As Rin reexamines every moment of their shared history, she begins to understand that what she'd called sisterly love might be something else entirely. Now they must navigate their feelings while living under one roof, knowing their parents may have suspected all along. A tender exploration of first love, identity, and

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 if 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