Reclaimed (The Nogiku Series, #4)
Family lines collide and secrets are finally spoken...
The freedom of Yūsei is in the hands of one woman determined to find equality and justice for everyone on the planet.
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About Reclaimed (The Nogiku Series, #4)...
The war is just beginning on Yūsei.
On the road and gaining ground against Fujiwara, Sanaa and her team find the local population hesitant to accept them. Charm and bribes can only get the colonists so far, and no matter what Sanaa does, she is not welcomed amongst the men and women of Yūsei. When Sanaa is denied help again, she reaches out to a Northern clan, the Odas, and bargains for a secret technology that will give her an incredible advantage but comes at a steep price.
Being on the road means leaving Yamato undefended, though, and when enemies strike, they leave everything in chaos. With Sanaa and Jiro sacrificing all their time and effort to keeping their home secure, they both must give up nearly everything to save the colonization, their future together, and reclaim Yūsei for its people.
Family lines collide, secrets are finally spoken, and the freedom of Yūsei is in the hands of one woman determined to find equality and justice for everyone on the planet.
Reclaimed is the fourth installment in the Nogiku Series, a saga of post-apocalyptic sci-fi novels set in future Japan.
Genre: Adult Science Fiction / Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction
Publication Date: May 28, 2015
Series: The Nogiku Series, Book #4
Chapters from Reclaimed (The Nogiku Series, #4)...
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Reclaimed – Prologue
Pushing his cards lightly against his shirt, Jiro concentrates on Kentaro. Kentaro’s mouth twitches, his eyes moving between each person at the table.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 1
“Time to move again, Sanaa. ” Sakai’s clear voice is full of ache and fatigue.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 2
With Hiro walking alongside Kentaro and his horse, we enter the village limits to a crowd of people. They smile and wave at us while little kids play behind them.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 3
I’m in a hospital bed dressed in a light gown. The world around me is fuzzy and soft, viewed through a smudged lens, and my mouth is dry.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 4
What better way to deal with a loss than to go back to work. Maybe more people would sit down and mourn for longer than me, but I can’t sit...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 5
Julia arrives the next morning while Kentaro, Usagi, and Hiro play soccer in the front courtyard. Their shouts and challenges echo off the buildings, drawing staff members to the porch...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 6
“Thank you all for coming. ” I bow my head down to the table and sit back up.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 7
I have plans for my last night of freedom before getting back on the road to the farmhouse we left behind. Oyama grills up whole fish and vegetables, drizzling mine...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 8
We approach the farmhouse on foot, walking in from the shuttle drop-off point around a mountain to the west. The journey is two hours long, but hiking is a more...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 9
Why is it that every day on this world is filled with complete madness? People talking to animals. Animals talking back to people.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 10
We travel North from Rittō around the foothills of Zenyama, a high mountain with snow on its peak. Zenyama is a favored mountain, much loved by the locals who make...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 11
We’re only about five kilometers from the outskirts of Owari, and today I’ll make my way into Oda’s mysterious city. I have a vague idea of what to expect.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 12
Owari is surrounded by a stone wall ten meters tall. From the road past the guard station, I can glimpse the top of a five-story pagoda in the middle of...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 13
I poke at the ramen in the bowl in front of me, my appetite gone, flown out the door with Rai as he stalked out of the room from our...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 14
I give the decision a lot of thought over the next day. I discuss the pros and cons with Rai, Jiro, Sakai, Arata, and Lucy over the tablet.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 15
Three days and two courses of IV drugs later, I’m able to sit and chat with Jiro using a normal tone of voice. The first day, I could barely stand...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 16
I wait till after eleven in my soundproof room, pacing the floor back and forth and driving Kumo mad until he lies down and passes out. I wonder what’s been...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 17
The stadium roars in my head, voices overlapping, music playing, drums beating, animals talking. If it weren’t for the earplugs, I would be deaf.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 18
The thick haze of smoke hovering over Yamato makes it difficult to land the shuttle in a secure area. The weather took a turn for the worse, and the air...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 19
“Over here. ” Jiro calls. I hit the top stair of the third floor landing, and Aunt Kimie and Lomo lie in the hallway outside their apartment door, or what...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 20
Soft rain, a mist of heated water, coats my face, the crackling of the building on fire, louder than anything else. My eyes see flames and smoke, but my brain...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 21
I wait inside the estate, sitting at the dining room table, in wet clothes, shivering, while the whole house moves around me. Cathy, my old hibernation tech and now my...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 22
I don’t sleep for two days. Instead, I scour the hills around the outskirts of town searching for people who fled the area during the attack.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 23
I’m silent while I pack my backpack for our journey. I lay out three shirts, three pairs of pants, three pairs of socks… three of everything I will need for...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 24
At the shuttle base, Jiro and I stand on the edge of the landing platform, waiting for the shuttle to return from a supplies run to Takayama. Wary employees pass...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 25
Sometime, after dawn, the sound of rustling grass wakes Jiro then me. “Time to get up!"
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 26
I leave the steaming tea where it is on the mat in front of me and refuse a bowl of rice porridge for breakfast. Oyama always tried to get me...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 27
“I wish I could get some sleep,” I say, yawning and rubbing my eyes. I sit cross-legged on the edge of the landing field, my tablet on my lap, and...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 28
The Oda encampment outside the walls of Owari is a tree house fifty meters long and only about eight meters wide stretched across the tops of a series of trees...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 29
I shoot for the target for over three hours without a break. I want the time to speed by.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 30
I don’t see anyone else but Jiro, Cathy, and Sono for the rest of the day. Cathy pumps three bags of saline into me, and I’m glad the bathroom is...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 31
Kentaro’s smile lights up my otherwise dull breakfast. “It’s good to see you, and my mother sends her best wishes.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 32
I’m restless again for the billionth night in a row. This time, I spend the entire evening lying as still as possible in bed, hoping that if I pretend to...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 33
“Sanaa!” I burst up to consciousness, gasping for breath, my heart galloping so fast its ready to jump out of my chest and run away.
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 34
The sunrise comes earlier each day as Yūsei moves further into the summer months, and I’m awake to greet it when the sounds of pots clanging echo through the treehouse....
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 35
We trek all day across the Nogusa-hara, east towards the Kōbuchi Desert, keeping the mountain range on our right. The plain of wildflowers is gorgeous and peaceful, the ground flat,...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 36
The sun dips low on the western horizon coloring the sky orange and lengthening our shadows on the grass. We break at another clearing and the lions leave us without...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 37
We leave the grassy sands of the transition between the Nogusa-hara and the Kōbuchi late in the morning the next day. I separate from our team in the leeway of...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 39
Sakai, Julia, Natsu, and Taya follow me along the sidewalk to the burning theater. We press ourselves to the building fronts as frightened citizens sprint out and away from the...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 40
“I took Mark Sakai from you and now I’ll take your husband too,” Sachi yells over the chaos in the streets. Kentaro’s face falls at the mention of Sakai dead...
Read NowReclaimed – Chapter 41
From my perch in the second story window, I press Arata’s binoculars to my eyes and peer down the adjacent street. About a kilometer out of town, along a dirt...
Read NowReclaimed – Epilogue
Jiro’s foot bounces, and he drums his fingers on the edge of the shuttle door. “Come on, come on, come on…” he mumbles, looking over his shoulder at the door...
Read NowExcerpt
“Watch me,” Arata instructs, taking the bow from my hands and grabbing an arrow from a pile at our feet. “Left hand on the grip. Right hand clutches the arrow in the bowstring. Arrow rests on the right side of the bowstring, on the outside.” He holds the bow and arrow at arm’s length in front of him, the target off in the distance to his left side. “Bring the bow up high, making sure you have torque on the bow and the arrow, pull back and bring down to eye level at the same time.” He aims out along the length of the arrow, holding for just a moment before releasing. In a blink, the arrow lands on the target.
“Shin-zen-bi. Truth, goodness, beauty. It’s not about how you aim or how strong you are. If you keep the three foci of truth, goodness, and beauty, in your mind and heart, you will always hit the target.”
“Shin-zen-bi,” I repeat, under my breath. Truth, goodness, beauty. Gods, I have none of those. I lied to Jiro and didn’t confide in him when I was too sick to eat. I was selfish and got Hiro’s parents killed — definitely not goodness. And beauty? I would never call myself or my actions beautiful, not in a million years.
“I can feel your skepticism,” Arata says, laughing and handing me a shooting glove. “Here. I’ll help you put it on.” While he wraps my hand in the long straps of the two finger and thumb glove, he repeats, “Shin. Zen. Bi. The strength in drawing the bow comes from starting high and opening your arms. Think of the truth of the arrow finding its target, a straight line. Every shot you make comes closer to the truth. Goodness is not an act of kindness, but more a way of peace. And you will find, with time, beauty in the way the bow bends, the arrow flies, and the greatness and honor of the ritual.”
Praise
“I’ve now read all 4 books and I’m a little hungover and sad, mostly because all I want is MORE!” – Pavarti, Amazon Customer
“Overall, I think this was a really good way to end the series… I highly recommend this series if you’re at all interested in sci-fi. And if you don’t mind romance with your sci-fi, I’m convinced that you can’t go wrong with these books.” – Brianna, Always Books
“All in all I really enjoyed this book, but I had hoped for a happier ending, even though this is a good ending and staying true to the world and realistic at the same time. I just hoped for more for these characters as they deserve more.” – Lola’s Reviews
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