Description: Yamabuki, a warlord's only daughter, veiled in the guise of an ordinary warrior, travels not as a princess but with the common people, only to find that many are not who they seem. Some want her dead. Others want her because she's a woman. She must fight for her honor, her duty, and her clan. Blood will be spilled before it is over.
Review Quotes:
"You don't write an excellent story by accident."
Cold Blood "draws out one of the best elements of historical fiction which is when it educates as well as entertains.... Revealing any of the interesting things would be spoilers because they are all weaved together to create a strong ending in which Lawrence was deft enough to play off of reader's expectations...to create surprises toward the end which makes me confident she knew what she was doing."
"Heck, it was so good I immediately bought a satellite novelette by Lawrence featuring Yamabuki called Cold Sake, and it takes something special to get me to venture below novella length. I highly recommend Cold Blood and I for one am eagerly awaiting the next book in the Sword of the Taka Samurai series."
--Carlyle Clark, Heroines of Fantasy