An origin story in the style of Maleficent for fans Madeline Miller and Natalie Haynes

Scottish student Isla escapes to Japan after a relationship falters, and finds old ghosts and new loves when a typhoon sends her time-travelling to the last days of the Samurai in this action-packed adventure

2005: While researching her Japanese ancestors, Isla travels from Scotland to Kagoshima. There, a vicious typhoon hurls her through a strange white gate and back to 1877, amid the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion – the conflict that ended the samurai.

When she meets Keiichiro Maeda, a sam...