In public, she's an elegant, delicate noble heiress in need of protection. Sakurakaze Noba has stunning pink-and-white hair and blue-green eyes. The beautiful, “frail” young lady of the Sakurakaze family rarely leaves home and is as quiet as a painting, the most captivating ornament in the Empire's social circles.
In private, she's the deadliest blade in the Empire's shadows. No one knows her other identity: a soul reincarnated into this world, the genius assassin codenamed “Wind Shadow,” one of the Five Shadows. She wields the magic of light and wind, and controls deadly cherry-blossom shuriken, deciding life and death without a sound. Beneath her elegant skirts lies a sharp blade, and her perfect disguise is her strongest armor.
As a deadly conspiracy silently closes in and her dual identity teeters on the brink of exposure, she must leave her tower and step into the heart of the maelstrom. Forced to shed her comfortable facade, she must navigate a family that despises her, the Empire's treacherous politics, and terrifying threats from the world's dark side. With wit and blade, she will cut through the fog and, in search of the meaning of her own existence, uncover a thousand-year-old secret that could decide the fate of the Empire.
This is the lone dance of a beautiful young assassin, and an eternal question about love and existence.
