The Book of the Pearl (Samurai Girl)
 

The Book of the Pearl (Samurai Girl)

by Carrie Asai

When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers named me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky.
I'm learning how wrong I was. (read review)

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Heaven and Cheryl, her roommate, are in Los Angeles. They go to a club, and Heaven ends up getting hired. The two get attacked by two thugs, but Heaven beats them both, easily. Hiro and Heaven have a major argument, and Heaven quits her training.

Heaven is attacked again by Yakuza, but is able to get away. She stops training with Hiro a second time when he tells her that her mother had called and he hadn't immediately informed her.

Cheryl has fallen for a guy named...

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  • myorange

    myorange said:

    hey have you read this? i haven't that why i wanted to know what happened next.. ^_^*

    posted Friday, November 16 2007
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