After the execution of her father, the young and beautiful Lady Asano is in grave danger from the powerful Lord Kira.
The Western Writers of America awarded her first book, Ride the Wind, the Golden Spur for best historical western of 1982 and it also made the New York Times Best Seller List..
She lives near Annapolis in a wooded community on the Severn River.
After earning her master\'s degree in Library Science at Florida State University, she worked as a public librarian in Annapolis, Maryland.
She has also lived in Japan, South Carolina and southern Arizona.
She has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela and a teacher in Brooklyn, New York.
Clair Robson was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in South Florida. .
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And she will need them all, for a ronin has been hired to pursue her, a mysterious man who will play a role in Cat\'s drama that neither could have ever imagined.
Her only tools are her quick wits, her samurai training, and her deadly, six foot-long naginata.
Disguising her loveliness in the humble garments of a traveling priest, and calling herself Cat, Lady Asano travels the fabled Tokaido Road.
She believes he is three hundred miles to the southwest in the imperial city of Kyoto.
In order to save herself Asano must find Oishi, the leader of the fighting men of her clan.
After the execution of her father, the young and beautiful Lady Asano is in grave danger from the powerful Lord Kira
