Raven's Sword — Adam Baker

  In this medieval adventure, a female warrior must prove herself as a samurai to survive during the Warring States period in Japan.
 
For the Samurai, death is not to be feared. It is to be embraced.
 
Japan 1533 -- A nation in turmoil. Rival warlords battle for supremacy while common folk struggle to survive in a land laid waste by endless war.
 
Tengu, an orphaned girl, must navigate the lawless hinterlands if she is to survive and achieve her ambition to become a master swordswoman.
 
Rejected by every school of martial skill, she joins samurai from northern Japan as they converge on a river shrine to take part in a savage tournament, a death-match from which only one can emerge victorious.
 
Will she survive the gladiatorial combat? Or will she meet a bloody end on the arena floor?