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The White Shadow

by Joseph Asphahani

Urban fantasy of yokai, corporate warfare, and hard-won agency

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Urban fantasy of yokai, corporate warfare, and hard-won agency

Shinjiro “Shin” Asai moves through a fractured future where mega-corporations wage covert wars and Yomi, a realm inhabited by violent yokai and shadowed forces, can be crossed by those with extraordinary power. Abandoned as an infant and unable to die, Shin works under contract to a criminal Syndicate while seeking a way out of the world that has claimed her. A samurai spirit’s katana expands her control over her abilities, but binds her to a campaign of revenge that reaches from an insulated elite to an embattled resistance. Japanese supernatural tradition, cybernetic inventions, and questions of identity converge around Shin’s struggle to direct her own life without being consumed by power or the past.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult urban-fantasy readers interested in Japanese mythology and yokai
  • Readers who enjoy futuristic worlds shaped by corporate power, crime, and resistance
  • Fans of fantasy centered on revenge, self-determination, and dangerous supernatural abilities

Themes

Agency and identityPower and corruptionRevengeCorporate controlTechnology and tradition

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Book overview

Alive or dead, blessed or cursed, Shin has to decide if she will forgive the vicious sins of her mysterious past or if her own ghosts will destroy her.

Abandoned at birth, given a male's name at an automated orphanage, Shinjiro Asai commands the inexplicable power to cross into Yomi, the realm of violent yokai and twisted shadows. Contracted by the criminal Syndicate, she finds herself swept up in the endless secret wars between mega-corporations that reign over the broken world she hopes to escape. Despite her best efforts, there's just one thing keeping her from finally breaking free: she cannot die.

When she is targeted by a long-forgotten dynasty of a bygone era, Shin grips the katana of a mad samurai spirit, gaining overwhelming control of her abilities-not to mention agency over her own life. With this new power, Shin will rise to the sub-orbital heaven occupied by a wealthy elite, then plunge deep into the concrete hell of a struggling resistance, all to satisfy the samurai's thirst for revenge, and to serve a cryptic, digital dragon's dangerous vision for a better world.

Along her journey-filled with monsters and magic, traditions and technologies, cyborgs and sentient suit jackets-Shin must temper herself or else fall to the corruption of her newfound power.

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