Shinobumaru – författare

A HARROWING HUNTKaori accompanies Suimei into the spirit realm to help him find his Inugami partner, Kuro. But when they discover that Ginme was attacked by Jorogumo, a spider spirit, their search kicks into high gear. Can they locate Kuro before he becomes Jorogumo’s next victim?

Kaori and Suimei have finally realised how they feel about each other, but their love will have to wait - the bookstore is in terrible danger. One day, a fox spirit called Hakuzousu storms in, screaming, “The spirit realm has no use for such an unscrupulous bookstore!” He blames his daughter’s love for a human on the influence of human books. Shinonome can’t just shrug off such an insult, and Kaori fears that a fight between her father and the fox will reduce the store to ashes. So, she sets out to seek help from the Three Great Tanukis of Japan to quell Hakuzousu’s anger, but whether they’ll answer her call is another story...

AN ALLURING ADVENTURENow that Suimei has moved out of the haunted bookstore, Kaori insists that she only misses the extra rent money—not Suimei himself. But when Tamaki, the story-seller, asks her to deliver a bundle of books to the southern islands, Kaori jumps at the chance to drag Suimei along!

HEALING BROKEN BONDSFor as long as Kaori can remember, she has run the spirit realm’s only bookstore alongside Shinonome, the spirit who is her adoptive father. But Kaori begins to fear that her bond with Shinonome has frayed. He’s keeping secrets from her, and they have something to do with his mysterious friend, the story-seller Tamaki. Worse, Kaori finds herself questioning the purpose of the bookstore itself—what if the stories she and her father bring to the spirit realm are doing more harm than good?