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Elye J. Alexander

    The Guin Saga - 1: The Leopard Mask
    Salvation of a Saint
    The Twelve Kingdoms
    The Twelve Kingdoms
    • Salvation of a Saint

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect--except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied--she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa. But even the brilliant mind of Dr. Yukawa has trouble with this one, and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real, very deadly murderer

      Salvation of a Saint2012
      3.9
    • The Twelve Kingdoms

      The Vast Spread of the Seas

      • 294 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      When only an eggfruit, the kirin of the En Kingdom, Rokuta, was transported to Japan for his own protection. But he was abandoned soon after birth by his surrogate parents, left to fend for himself in the mountains. It just so happened that at the same time, a young boy in the En Kingdom named Koya was also abandoned by his own parents, after which he was raised by demon beasts. Their similar circumstances aren't the only thing to bind these two boys, though. Twenty years after their abandonment, their destinies intersect, with potentially disastrous consequences for the En Kingdom.

      The Twelve Kingdoms2009
      4.4
    • The Twelve Kingdoms

      Sea of Wind - Hardcover Edition

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      An international bestseller, this spectacular fantasy epic makes its U.S. debut.Born in Japan and raised as a human, Taiki is overwhelmed when he's brought back to the kingdom of Tai, where he's told he's a kirin. With little knowledge or guidance, he must trust his latent instincts to choose a king for the Kingdom of Tai from among dozens of men and women who seek the position. Will the frustrated Taiki, who can't even figure out how to transform into animal form, make the right choice? And more important, will he discover the kirin that lives within?

      The Twelve Kingdoms2008
      4.3
    • The Guin Saga - 1: The Leopard Mask

      • 231 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The Guin Saga is epic heroic fantasy in the same vein as Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. More than a hundred books strong and growing, the saga has sold more than twenty-five million copies in Japan. Vertical will publish the first five installments that comprise "The Marches Episode" arc. In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul has overrun its elegant neighbor, Palos. The kindgom's surviving royalty, the young twins Rinda and Remus, hide in a forest in the forbidding wild marches. There they are saved by a mysterious creature with a man's body and a leopard's head, who has emerged from a deep sleep and remembers only his name. Guin.

      The Guin Saga - 1: The Leopard Mask2003
      3.6