The Mending Season — Three Novels Set in Kyoto, Free on Kindle: April 18–22
The crafts that inspire Voice of Japan — kintsugi, bonsai, kimono — have now found their way into fiction. All three books in The Mending Season series are free on Amazon Kindle from April 18 to 22.
Book One: The Cup She Mended
A kintsugi artist inherits her grandmother's workshop in old Kyoto — and stumbles into a mystery involving a missing tea bowl worth far more than anyone admits.
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Book Two: The Shape of Old Trees
A bonsai master notices his most treasured tree is failing. What begins as a question about a dying pine becomes a sixty-year-old secret — and an unexpected partnership with a tea ceremony teacher.
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Book Three: The Color of Old Silk
A textile restorer discovers a message encoded in the weave of a nineteenth-century kimono — hidden there seventy years ago by someone who trusted the fabric to carry the truth forward.
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All three novels are set in the same quiet lanes of Kyoto, where ancient crafts — kintsugi, bonsai, kimono — hold the stories of the people who practice them.
Free for 5 days only. Also free anytime for Kindle Unlimited members.