The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

Synopsis

To resolve a clash over succession, the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa has devised the ultimate contest: Two rival ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, will represent the disputing heirs. Ten fighters from each clan will meet in a battle to the death. The victor will determine the ruler of Japan for the next thousand years. But in the midst of this bloody war, an unlikely romance blooms between Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan. Gennosuke and Oboro are the next leaders of their clans, and their fates are inextricably bound with those of their families. In the colossal fight, the star-crossed lovers are faced with a fatal choice between love and destiny. Can romance conquer a four-hundred-year-old rivalry? Or is their love doomed to end in death? (Source: Del Rey)