"SHIN is a potent coctail of poison and nectar."

Shin is a powerful shapeshifter, but he is yet vulnerable, and too many creatures, both mythic and mortal, have a stake in his death. Caught between his samurai uncle's ambitions for a bloodless war and his shapeshifter mother's immortal fight for celestial territory, Shin's uncle gives him up as a tribute warrior for the shogunate military.

Shin wins the army's loyalty away from the shogun to a cause he can't be sure of himself, then strikes off on a new mission to recruit an assassin for the revolution. But this assassin is unlike any he has ever met before. She may kill him, but only if all goes well.

SHIN is a second- generation spin on the Japanese Tanabata folklore tradition and joins the ranks of Japanese light novels such as Goblin Slayer, Overlord, and The Saga of Tanya the Evil.

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